US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on June 24 for "Foam for optical fiber cable, composition, and method of manufacturing" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,506, issued on June 24, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Foam for optical fiber cable, composition, and method of manufacturing" was invented by Anne Germaine Bringuier (Taylorsville, N.C.) and Xiaole Cheng (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber cable having at least one optical fiber, a cable jacket and a foam layer. The cable jacket includes an inner surface and an outer surface in which the outer surface is an outermost surface of the optical fiber cable. The inner surface is disposed around the at least one optical fiber. Th...