US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on May 13 for "Foam for optical fiber cable, composition, and method of manufacturing" (North Carolina, New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,576, issued on May 13, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Foam for optical fiber cable, composition, and method of manufacturing" was invented by Ryan Thomas Adams (Charlotte, N.C.), Bradley Jerome Blazer (Granite Falls, N.C.), Anne Germaine Bringuier (Taylorsville, N.C.), Xiaole Cheng (Painted Post, N.Y.), Sergey Vladimirovich Chernykh (Hickory, N.C.), John Richard Jacks (Wellington, Ohio) and Rebecca Elizabeth Sistare (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber cable having at least one optical fiber, a cable jacket, and a foam layer. The...