US Patent Issued to Panduit on July 22 for "Multimode fiber having improved index profile" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,703, issued on July 22, was assigned to Panduit Corp. (Tinley Park, Ill.).

"Multimode fiber having improved index profile" was invented by Richard J. Pimpinella (Frankfort, Ill.) and Gaston E. Tudury (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graded index multimode fiber and method of producing the graded index multimode fiber utilize a technique of reducing an index profile of the core of the multimode fiber below a standard parabolic index profile. This can be done by changing dopant concentrations in the fiber core over the radius of the fiber core. The result is a multimode fiber having differential mode delay charac...