ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,318, issued on July 15, was assigned to nLIGHT Inc. (Camas, Wash.).
"Combiner housing for optical fiber combiner" was invented by Juan Carlos Lugo (Camas, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capillary combiner housing for an optical fiber combiner has an inner combiner casing supporting optical fibers. The capillary combiner housing includes a non-metallic body defining a lumen between an input side and an output side, the lumen sized to receive the inner combiner casing, the non-metallic body having a coefficient of thermal expansion substantially matching that of the inner combiner casing. Also included is a first aperture in th...