US Patent Issued to Corning Research & Development on June 3 for "Laser-cleaving of an optical fiber array with controlled cleaving angle" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,012, issued on June 3, was assigned to Corning Research & Development Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Laser-cleaving of an optical fiber array with controlled cleaving angle" was invented by Scott Robertson Bickham (Corning, N.Y.), Joel Patrick Carberry (Big Flats, N.Y.), Randy Larue McClure (Corning, N.Y.), Craig John Mancusi Ungaro (Corning, N.Y.), Qi Wu (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Lei Yuan (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a process by which an optical fiber array is cleaved with a laser-cleaving apparatus. The coating material is stripped or removed from a section of an optical fiber array; ...