US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Oct. 21 for "Multicore fiber stubs, multicore fan-in, fan-out devices, and methods of fabricating the same" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,588, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Multicore fiber stubs, multicore fan-in, fan-out devices, and methods of fabricating the same" was invented by Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Qi Wu (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a multicore optical fiber stub includes a plurality of optical cores, each optical core having an inner core and an outer core, and a fiber coupling section having a first diameter. The plurality of optical cores has a first pitch at the fiber coupling section. Each core at the fiber coupling section has a first index prof...