US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on July 8 for "Intermittently bonded ribbon with intermittent bonds created with a wet-on-wet process" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,041, issued on July 8, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Intermittently bonded ribbon with intermittent bonds created with a wet-on-wet process" was invented by Julie Ann Chalk (Hickory, N.C.), David Wesley Chiasson (Edmonton, Canada), Klaus Hartkorn (Painted Post, N.Y.), Gregory Alan Mills (Clemmons, N.C.) and Xiaomin Zhao (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber ribbon. The optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of subunits each comprising a subunit coating surrounding at least two optical fibers arranged adjacently to each other. T...