US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on June 17 for "Jetting optimized outdoor and indoor multi-function drop cable" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,492, issued on June 17, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Jetting optimized outdoor and indoor multi-function drop cable" was invented by George Cornelius Abernathy (Hildebran, N.C.), Corey Scott Keisler (Conover, N.C.) and Jason Clay Lail (Wilmington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber drop cable including a cable jacket having an outer surface defining the outermost surface of the optical fiber drop cable. The optical fiber drop cable also includes a subunit, a first strength element, and a second strength element. The first strength element, the second strength element, and th...