US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on June 24 for "Intermittently bonded ribbon having bonding regions with multiple materials" (Canadian, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,512, issued on June 24, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Intermittently bonded ribbon having bonding regions with multiple materials" was invented by Julie Ann Chalk (Hickory, N.C.), David Wesley Chiasson (Edmonton, Canada), Gregory Alan Mills (Clemmons, N.C.), Bin Yang (Shenzhen, China) 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 optical fibers arranged adjacently to each other and a plurality of bonding regions intermittently spaced along a length of the optical f...