US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Feb. 3 for "SZ strand retention of assymetrical optical fiber ribbon units by a conforming tensioned elastomer shell" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,068, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"SZ strand retention of assymetrical optical fiber ribbon units by a conforming tensioned elastomer shell" was invented by Bradley Jerome Blazer (Granite Falls, N.C.), Warren Welborn McAlpine (Hickory, N.C.), David Alan Seddon (Hickory, N.C.), Rebecca Elizabeth Sistare (Hickory, N.C.) and Kenneth Darrell Temple Jr. (Newton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber cable includes a central element, extending along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable, and a plurality of routable subunits, each routable subunit having a rig...