Patents Assigned to Corning
  • Patent number: 10983267
    Abstract: A quasi-single-mode (QSM) optical fiber includes a core and a cladding surrounding the core. The core includes a centerline and an outer edge. The cladding includes an interior edge and an exterior edge. The cladding has a cladding outer diameter defined by the exterior edge of the cladding. The cladding outer diameter may be in the range of greater than 170 ?m to about 200 ?m. The QSM fiber has a cabled cutoff wavelength that is greater than about 1530 nm. The core and the cladding support a fundamental mode LP01 and a higher-order mode LP11. The fundamental mode LP01 has an effective area Aeff>150 ?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: John David Downie, Ming-Jun Li, William Allen Wood, Aramais Robert Zakharian
  • Patent number: 10982998
    Abstract: A laser system includes a controller comprising a processor and a non-transitory machine-readable memory, a laser head configured to output a laser beam, a work bed positioned opposite the laser head, and a power meter communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit and integrated within the work bed. The laser system further includes a knife edge plate positioned between the power meter and the laser head, and a machine-readable instruction set stored in the non-transitory machine readable memory that causes the laser system to perform at least the following when executed by the processor: position the laser head at a distance from the power meter, cause the laser head to output the laser beam, translate the laser head across the power meter, receive power signals from the power meter as the laser beam is translated across the power meter, and calculate a spot size based on the power signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Hackert, Tobias Christian Roeder, Uwe Stute
  • Patent number: 10981825
    Abstract: An antimicrobial article having a substrate, and a coating on a surface of the substrate. The coating includes a silver-containing alkali silicate. The antimicrobial article has an antimicrobial efficacy of greater than or equal to about 90.0% according to EPA Test Method for Efficacy of Copper Alloy Surfaces as a Sanitizer. The coating may further include at least one of a boron-containing compound and an aluminum-containing compound. A method for forming antimicrobial articles includes coating a substrate with a mixture comprising an alkali silicate; curing the coating at a temperature from greater than or equal to about 300° C. to less than or equal to about 620° C. for a duration of greater than or equal to about 15 minutes to less than or equal to about 120 minutes; and contacting the coating with an antimicrobial medium comprising silver nitrate and an alkali nitrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Wageesha Senaratne, Ying Wei
  • Patent number: 10981355
    Abstract: Bulk materials having a kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond is provided. The bulk materials having a kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond includes transparent material, absorbent opaque material and a diffusion bond. The transparent material has properties that allow an electromagnetic beam of a select wavelength to pass there through without more than minimal energy absorption. The absorbent opaque material has properties that significantly absorb energy from the electromagnetic beam. The diffusion bond is formed by the electromagnetic beam bonding the transparent material to the absorbent opaque material. Moreover, the diffusion bond has a thickness that is less than 1000 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Medtronic, Inc, Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael S. Sandlin, David A. Ruben, Raymond M. Karam, Georges Roussos, Thomas M. Wynne
  • Patent number: 10980391
    Abstract: A home appliance having a housing, an internal compartment within the housing, and a first duct extending from the internal compartment to an area exterior to the housing. The first duct formed from at least one sound absorbing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventor: Anthony Lee Rockwell
  • Patent number: 10980264
    Abstract: Methods for preparing thermally inhibited starch agglomerates are disclosed. Thermally inhibited starch agglomerates prepared by this method provide a higher viscosity over thermally inhibited starches that are not agglomerated but are thermally inhibited in the same manner as the thermally inhibited starch agglomerates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Corn Products Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Lane, Wajira S. Ratnayake, Tarak Shah, Judith M. Vaz
  • Patent number: 10985321
    Abstract: Compositions are included comprising heterocyclic organic compounds based on fused thiophene compounds, polymers based on fused thiophene compounds, and methods for making the monomers and polymer along with uses in thin film-based and other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Mingqian He, James Robert Matthews, Weijun Niu, Adama Tandia, Arthur Lawrence Wallace
  • Patent number: 10979789
    Abstract: Wavelength-based random access in an optical communications network for a wireless communications system (WCS) is disclosed. An optical network unit(s) (ONU(s)) is configured to generate a random access signal comprising an unsolicited buffer occupancy (BO) report to request uplink allocation as soon as the ONU(s) receives a non-periodic uplink data burst. The ONU(s) then sends an optical random access signal including the unsolicited BO report to an optical line terminator (OLT) based on a random access wavelength, which is so determined not to cause any interference with a downlink optical communications signal(s) and an uplink optical communications signal(s) being regularly communicated between the OLT and the ONU(s). As a result, it is possible to reduce access delay at the ONU(s) for sending the non-periodic uplink data burst without requiring frequent polling from the OLT, thus helping to reduce signaling overhead and improve throughput of the optical communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventor: Baruh Hason
  • Patent number: 10977394
    Abstract: Design tools and methods of use for designing, ordering, and providing manufacturing and installation instructions for waveguide system networks include a system design tool including a location selection module to determine a selected location, a satellite imagery component to provide an image based on the selected location, an overlay module to overlay a design on the image, and a customization module to customize the design. The system design tool includes one or more design modules to at least one of automatically output and build via user input one or more design options based on the image, and a design customization module to select the design from the one or more design options. The system design tool includes a positioning module to set a pair of connectivity points such that a cable length may be automatically calculated based on a calculated distance between the pair of connectivity points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: James Garrett Dewell, David Barth Hopper, Joseph Clinton Jensen
  • Patent number: 10974989
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are TiNb-phosphate glasses that present several advantages over traditional Ti-phosphate glass compositions. The glasses disclosed herein have a low devitrification tendency and can be processed by melt quenching and formed into macroscopic components. Despite the presence of niobium, the glasses have high stability indices and are chemically durable. The glasses disclosed herein are transparent and have high refractive indices, as well, making them suitable for optical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Bruce Gardiner Aitken
  • Patent number: 10976551
    Abstract: A display apparatus has an image generator that generates image-bearing light from a surface and a lens spaced apart from the image generator and having an aspheric incident refractive surface concave to the image generator and having an aspheric reflective surface concave to the image generator, wherein a principal axis of the reflective surface is normal to the image generator. A beam splitter plate disposed in free space between the image generator and the lens has first and second parallel surfaces that are oblique to a line of sight of a viewer. The lens and the beam splitter plate define a viewer eye box for the image-bearing light along the line of sight of the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Joshua Monroe Cobb
  • Patent number: 10974486
    Abstract: A laminated glass article includes at least a first layer, a second layer in direct contact with the first layer, and an optical property difference between the first layer and the second layer. The optical property difference includes at least one of: (a) a transmission profile difference between a transmission profile of the first and second layers in a wavelength range from 200 nm to 2500 nm; or (b) a light-polarizing difference, whereby the second layer is light-polarizing with respect to electromagnetic irradiation in the wavelength range from 200 nm to 2500 nm; or (c) a refractive index difference between refractive indices of the first and second layers of at least 0.005, wherein one layer includes a base glass composition and the other layer includes the base glass composition and a dopant in an amount sufficient to cause the refractive index difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Olus Naili Boratav, Ming-Jun Li, Piotr Janusz Wesolowski
  • Patent number: 10975010
    Abstract: Continuous processes for making ethylene glycol form aldohexose-yielding carbohydrates are disclosed which enhance the selectivity to ethylene glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Iowa Corn Promotion Board
    Inventors: David James Schreck, Ray Chrisman, Brooke Albin, Donald Bunning, Mark Nunley
  • Patent number: 10976511
    Abstract: A method for passing a plurality of optical fibers into an enclosure configured to enclose in an interior thereof a plurality of optical communication connections may include accessing the interior of the enclosure. The method may also include separating a module plate associated with a floor of the enclosure to provide an opening between an exterior of the enclosure and the interior of the enclosure. The method may also include feeding the plurality of optical fibers through the opening and into the interior of the enclosure. The method may further include associating the module plate with the enclosure, such that the module plate at least partially defines an aperture through which the plurality of optical fibers pass from the exterior of the enclosure to the interior of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Jason James Brown, William Julius McPhil Giraud
  • Patent number: 10976492
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable includes a plurality of fusion spliced optical fibers, with a polymeric overcoating extending over a fusion splice region as well as over a stripped section of each optical fiber proximate to the fusion splice region, wherein the plurality of fusion spliced optical fibers has a non-coplanar arrangement at the fusion splice region. A method for fabricating a fiber optic cable includes fusion splicing first and second pluralities of optical fibers arranged in a respective one-dimensional array to form a plurality of fusion spliced optical fibers, and contacting the fusion splices as well as stripped sections of the fusion spliced optical fibers with polymeric material in a flowable state. Either before or after the contacting step, the method further includes altering a position of at least some of the spliced optical fibers to yield a configuration in which the plurality of fusion spliced optical fibers have a non-coplanar arrangement at the fusion splice region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Qi Wu
  • Patent number: 10974487
    Abstract: A cover element for a foldable electronic device that includes a foldable glass element, first and second primary surfaces, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth that is defined by a stress ?I of at least about 100 MPa in compression at the first primary surface. The device also includes a polymeric layer disposed over the first primary surface. The glass element has a stress profile such that when the glass element is bent to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 20 mm, to induce a bending stress ?B at the first primary surface in tension, ?I+?B<400 MPa (in tension). Further, the cover element can withstand a pen drop height of at least 1.5 times that of a control pen drop height of the cover element without the layer according to a Drop Test 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Polly Wanda Chu, Michael Patrick Donovan, Timothy Michael Gross, Louis Mattos, Jr., Prakash Chandra Panda, Robert Lee Smith, III
  • Publication number: 20210100190
    Abstract: A new and distinct Guzmania hybrid named ‘PUNTA’ characterized by solid growth habit; funnel-form rosette plant, measuring about 35 cm in height (above the pot when flowering); numerous, green color foliage (measuring about 40 to 60 cm length and about 4 to 6 cm in width) Superior floral bract production; bracts are orange-red in color (closest to RHS 34A), head inflorescence, measuring about 11 cm in height and about 14 cm in diameter; and long-lasting habit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Corn Bak BV
    Inventors: Elly Bak, Nicolaas Steur
  • Patent number: 10967539
    Abstract: A manufacturing line includes a tape of green material that is directed through a furnace so that the furnace burns off organic binder material and then partially sinters the tape without the use of a setter board. Sintered articles resulting from the manufacturing line may be thin with relatively large surface areas; and, while substantially unpolished, have few sintering-induced surface defects. Tension may be applied to the partially sintered tape as it passes through a second furnace on the manufacturing line to shape resulting sintered articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Edward Badding, William Joseph Bouton, Jacqueline Leslie Brown, Timothy Joseph Curry, Roman E Hurny, Lanrik Wayne Kester, Thomas Dale Ketcham, John Albert Olenick, Kathleen Ritter Olenick, Jeremy Paananen, Thomas Silverblatt, Dell Joseph St Julien, Viswanathan Venkateswaran, Nathan Michael Zink
  • Patent number: 10968134
    Abstract: A glass article including any one or several of SiO2, Al2O3, B2O3, Li2O, SnO2 and a fusion line. The glass article can also include a liquidus viscosity less than or equal to 100 kP. In some embodiments, the glass article includes, on an oxide basis, from 60 mol % to 74 mol % SiO2, from 7 mol % to 18 mol % Al2O3, from 3 mol % to 16 mol % B2O3, from 0 mol % to 6 mol % Na2O, from 0 mol % to 5 mol % P2O5, from 5 mol % to 11 mol % Li2O, less than or equal to 0.2 mol % SnO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Shawn Rachelle Markham, Charlene Marie Smith, Jae Hyun Yu
  • Patent number: 10969540
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical transmission system that operates at a wavelength in the range from 950 nm to 1600 nm and that employs a single-mode optical transmitter and an optical receiver optically coupled to respective ends of a multimode fiber designed for 850 nm multimode operation. The optical transmission system also employs at least one single mode fiber situated within the optical pathway between the optical transmitter and the receiver and coupled to the multimode fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Xin Chen, Ming-Jun Li