ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,521, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FIBERBRIDGE PHOTONICS GMBH (Jannover, Germany).
"Fiber exit element" was invented by Thomas Theeg (Seelze, Germany) and Tony Pulzer (Garbsen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a fiber exit element (1), comprising: a plurality of glass fibers (10) each having at least one core (10a) which is designed to guide a signal light ray (A); and at least one optical element (14), preferably an optical window (14), an optical lens (14), an optical beam splitter (14) or an optical prism (14), which is connected to each open end (11) of the cores (10a) of the glass fibe...