US Patent Issued to Corning Research & Development on March 11 for "Relative mode transmission loss measurement of a connectorized fiber optic cable" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,830, issued on March 11, was assigned to Corning Research & Development Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Relative mode transmission loss measurement of a connectorized fiber optic cable" was invented by David Matthew Berg (Rochester, N.Y.), Stefan Wolfgang Kramel (Regensburg, Germany), David Andrew Pastel (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Michael Brian Webb (Lindley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for measuring signal loss in a fiber optic cable. The tail ends of reference and test fiber optic cables are illuminated with a diffuse light. The head end of each of the reference and test fiber optic cables are positioned in a measu...