ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,717, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Metrohm Spectro Inc. (Plainsboro, N.J.).

"Dual-diameter jacketed fiber-coupled optoelectronic module" was invented by Dmitriy Petrov (East Windsor, N.J.), Faraz Hashmi (East Windsor, N.J.) and Greg W. Charache (East Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-diameter armor jacketing assembly method for protecting the fiber optic cable of an optoelectronic module is demonstrated. This method allows for rigid attachment of the armor jacketing to both the optoelectronic module housing and the fiber connector and also for rotation of the fiber connector for polarization maintaining fiber a...