US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on May 20 for "Jumper cables with high tensile performance and low acidity" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,447, issued on May 20, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Jumper cables with high tensile performance and low acidity" was invented by William Carl Hurley (Hickory, N.C.) and Martina Petra Richter-Buhling (Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber cable is provided. The optical fiber cable includes an outer jacket having an outer surface defining an outermost surface of the optical fiber cable and an inner surface defining a central bore. The optical fiber cable includes a plurality of aramid fibers located in the central bore, and the plurality of aramid fibers h...