US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Oct. 7 for "Multi-fiber ferrule end face features and corresponding methods thereof" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,343, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Multi-fiber ferrule end face features and corresponding methods thereof" was invented by James Ronald Merriken (Granite Falls, N.C.) and Charles Gregory Stroup (Lincolnton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a multi-fiber optical ferrule that includes a protrusion on the ferrule end face that surrounds and encompasses ferrule microholes on the ferrule end face. The protrusion is shaped and is deformable upon contact with a contact target such that alignment of optical fibers within the ferrule can be control...