US Patent Issued to Corning Research & Development on July 22 for "Fiber optic ferrule and interface for coupling hollow-core and solid-core optical fibers" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,710, issued on July 22, was assigned to Corning Research & Development Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Fiber optic ferrule and interface for coupling hollow-core and solid-core optical fibers" was invented by Stephan Lvovich Logunov (Corning, N.Y.), Pushkar Tandon (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Qi Wu (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber coupling assembly for interfacing solid core and a hollow core optical fibers includes first and second fiber optic ferrules each having a bore between proximal and distal end faces thereof. At least one ferrule end face is non-perpendicular to longitudinal axes of the ferrules. A bore of one ...