US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Oct. 28 for "Fiber optic cable assembly with high packing density and method of making same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,424, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Fiber optic cable assembly with high packing density and method of making same" was invented by Brandon Duvall Compton (Newton, N.C.) and Christopher Shawn Houser (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic cable assembly having a reduced cross-dimensional width includes a fiber optic cable carrying a plurality of optical fibers and having a furcation formed at an end thereof. The furcation includes a furcation housing and a plurality of furcation tubes extending from the furcation housing. Each of the plurality of furcation...