US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Nov. 25 for "Ribbon with non-overlapping intermittent bonds between optical fiber subunits" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,112, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Ribbon with non-overlapping intermittent bonds between optical fiber subunits" was invented by Arash Abedijaberi (Painted Post, N.Y.), Ronald Steven Black (Hickory, N.C.), David Wesley Chiasson (Edmonton, Canada), Darin Gregory Howe (Denver, N.C.) and Gregory Alan Mills (Clemmons, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber ribbon. The optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of subunits each having a subunit coating surrounding at least one optical fiber. The subunit coating is made of a fi...