US Patent Issued to Corning Research & Development on March 4 for "Multicore optical fiber core configuration transformer" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,104, issued on March 4, was assigned to Corning Research & Development Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Multicore optical fiber core configuration transformer" was invented by Peter Gerard Wigley (Corning, N.Y.) and Qi Wu (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Core configuration transformers and methods of making same. A core configuration transformer includes a transforming optical fiber having plurality of routing cores embedded therein. The transforming optical fiber includes a first end face and a second end face. The plurality of routing cores is configured to define a first end face core pattern at the first end face of the ...