US Patent Issued to Covestro (Netherlands) on Jan. 13 for "Self-healing optical fibers and the compositions used to create the same" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,534, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. (Geleen, Netherlands).

"Self-healing optical fibers and the compositions used to create the same" was invented by Meng He (Elgin, Ill.), Thomas Fauvell (Elgin, Ill.) and Eric Urruti (Elgin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions for coating an optical fiber containing an optional reactive monomer and/or oligomer, a self-healing component with self-healing moieties, an initiator component, and optionally an additive component. The self-healing component preferably includes polymerizable moieties. Such compositions contain greater than 30...