US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Jan. 13 for "Apparatus and method for holding optical fiber and fiber arrays via vacuum for fiber alignment and attaching" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,822, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Rome, N.Y.).

"Apparatus and method for holding optical fiber and fiber arrays via vacuum for fiber alignment and attaching" was invented by Amos M. Smith (Chittenango, N.Y.), Erin C. Sheridan (Oneida, N.Y.), Andrew Brownell (Rome, N.Y.) and Nicholas Barton (Lee Center, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for performing fiber optic alignment and attachment of an industry standard single fiber optic cable or fiber array to the facet of an optical chip. The proposed invention provides a means to gently hol...