US Patent Issued to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL on July 29 for "Porous glass base material manufacturing apparatus, method for manufacturing porous glass base material, and method for manufacturing glass base material for optical fiber" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,364, issued on July 29, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Porous glass base material manufacturing apparatus, method for manufacturing porous glass base material, and method for manufacturing glass base material for optical fiber" was invented by Naoto Noda (Ibaraki-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The porous glass base material manufacturing apparatus releases gas of organic siloxane raw materials into the flame of a group of burners that moves relative to a starting base material along the longitudinal direction of the starting base material rotating around a rotation axis along the longitudinal directi...