ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,580, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Techniques for azimuthally aligning a cross-section of an anti-resonant hollow core fiber when winding such fiber into a coil" was invented by Austin Acker Taranta (Southampton, Great Britain), Leonard George Budd (Southampton, Great Britain), Francesco Poletti (Southampton, Great Britain), Eric Numkam Fokoua (Southampton, Great Britain) and Seyed Mohammad Abokhamis Mousavi (Portsmouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for controlling azimuthal alignment of a cross-section of the anti-resonant hollow core fiber ...