ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,413, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).
"Fiber-optic light guide with deformed ends" was invented by Bernd Schultheis (Schwabenheim, Germany), Martin Cramer (Wiesbaden, Germany), Jonas Grimm (Bad Schwalbach, Germany), Fabian Brey (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Jonas Knaus (Mainz, Germany), Lothar Willmes (Oestrich-Winkel, Germany) and Sergei Kraus (Pfungstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber-optic light guide is provided. The light guide includes plurality of optical fibers and an enveloping material. The plurality of optical fibers define a flexible fiber bundle. The flexible fiber bundle ha...