ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,314, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NKT PHOTONICS A/S (Birkerod, Denmark).

"Source of supercontinuum radiation and microstructured fiber" was invented by Jens Kristian Lyngsoe (Hornbaek, Denmark) and Christian Jacobsen (Virum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microstructured optical fiber including a core region and a cladding region which surrounds the core region. The cladding region includes a plurality of cladding features within a cladding background material, wherein the cladding region includes an inner cladding region with at least one inner ring of cladding features and an outer cladding region with at least thre...