US Patent Issued to Corning Research & Development on June 3 for "Optical distribution system and related methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,033, issued on June 3, was assigned to Corning Research & Development Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Optical distribution system and related methods" was invented by Michael Todd Faulkner (Granite Falls, N.C.) and Lars Kristian Nielsen (Denver, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical distribution systems for data centers or similar networks are disclosed, where one or both ends of a high fiber-count backbone cable branch out once to serve multiple buildings. The optical distribution systems include the backbone cable, an enclosure that receives an end portion of the backbone cable, a plurality of tether cables connected to the backbone c...