US Patent Issued to FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITAET JENA on June 24 for "Method for producing glass fibers that laterally emit light, and glass fibers produced according to said method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,161, issued on June 24, was assigned to FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITAET JENA (Jena, Germany).

"Method for producing glass fibers that laterally emit light, and glass fibers produced according to said method" was invented by Lothar Wondraczek (Jena, Germany) and Jan Schroder (Weimar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing glass fibers that laterally emit light and to glass fibers produced according to said method. The problem of providing a method that relies on standard available glass components, thus making possible an economical production method that allows a glass fiber to be produ...