ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,979, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Optical devices having internally field-configurable splitting ratios and methods of using the same" was invented by Pinhas Yehuda Rosenfelder (Beit-Shemseh, Iceland), Carmi Shapira (D.N. Modiin, Iceland) and Eric Stephan ten Have (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Field-configurable optical devices and methods are disclosed. In one example, a field-configurable optical device includes a housing defining an enclosure, an input port located at the housing, a pass-through port located at the housing, a plurality of output ports located at...