US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Oct. 14 for "Anti-resonant hollow-core fibers featuring support structures" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,976, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Anti-resonant hollow-core fibers featuring support structures" was invented by Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa (Orlando, Fla.), Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez (Orlando, Fla.) and Stephanos Yerolatsitis (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber may include a cladding structure extending along a fiber length providing a hollow interior fiber region and one or more sets of anti-resonant (AR) elements formed as walled structures with walls extending along the fiber length. The one or more sets of AR elements may be dis...