ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,413, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Core polarity invariant structured multicore fiber optic cabling system" was invented by Qi Wu (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structured multicore fiber optic cabling systems, network components, and methods of making same. The cabling system includes a multicore fiber optic cable assembly and a plurality of network components. Each cable assembly includes first and second cable connectors and a plurality of multicore optical fibers. One half of the plurality of multicore optical fibers have a first draw direction, and the...