US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Sept. 16 for "Intermittently bonded optical fiber ribbon with joining ribbon matrices" (Canadian, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,772, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Intermittently bonded optical fiber ribbon with joining ribbon matrices" was invented by Julie Ann Chalk (Hickory, N.C.), David Wesley Chiasson (Edmonton, Canada), Jeffrey Dean Danley (Hickory, N.C.), Gregory Alan Mills (Clemmons, N.C.), Zhaoxu Tian (Hickory, N.C.) and Bin Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber ribbon in which the optical fibers of the optical fiber ribbon are intermittently bonded together at bonding regions along the length of the optical fiber ribbon. The...