US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on March 11 for "Rollable optical fiber ribbon with low attenuation, large mode field diameter optical fiber and cable" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,192, issued on March 11, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Rollable optical fiber ribbon with low attenuation, large mode field diameter optical fiber and cable" was invented by Dana Craig Bookbinder (Corning, N.Y.), Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Pushkar Tandon (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rollable optical fiber ribbon utilizing low attenuation, bend insensitive fibers and cables incorporating such rollable ribbons are provided. The optical fibers are supported by a ribbon body, and the ribbon body is formed from a flexible material such that the optical fibers are re...