ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,497, issued on June 24, was assigned to Menovex Medical Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).
"Method for optical fiber fusion splicing" was invented by Wenqiang Bao (Guangdong, China), Encai Ji (Guangdong, China), Yixiang Dai (Guangdong, China), Ke Zeng (Guangdong, China) and Liuzhu Li (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an optical fiber fusion splicing method, comprising: performing a slit operation on the coating layer at a preset stripping length of the optical fiber to be fused; immersing the optical fiber in a softening liquid to soften the coating layer after the slit is ...