Patents by Inventor Clint Nicholaus Anderson
Clint Nicholaus Anderson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240027714Abstract: An exemplary optical cable includes a first type of ribbon bundles, a second type of ribbon bundles, a third type of ribbon bundles, a plurality of strength rods, and an outer jacket. Each of the first, the second, and third type of ribbon bundles includes a first, a second, a third flexible ribbon with corresponding optical fibers disposed within a ribbon bundle jacket. The first type of ribbon bundles is arranged in an interlocking pattern in a central region of the optical cable. The second type of ribbon bundles and the third type of ribbon bundles are disposed around the first type of ribbon bundles in a peripheral region of the optical cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Jeffrey Scott Barker, Brian G. Risch, Ryan Truong, Ben H. Wells, Gavin Lin, Donald Ray Parris
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Publication number: 20240012216Abstract: An optical cable includes a plurality of buffer tubes and an outer jacket surrounding the plurality of buffer tubes. Each of the plurality of buffer tubes includes a buffer tube jacket surrounding a plurality of flexible ribbons. The buffer tube jacket includes a first deformable material that has undergone deformation during formation of the optical cable to conform to an irregular axial cross-sectional shape of each respective plurality of flexible ribbons. Each flexible ribbon includes a plurality of optical fibers and a first longitudinal length. For each flexible ribbon, each optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers is attached to an adjacent optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers along a bond region comprising a second longitudinal length that is less than the first longitudinal length. The cable has a fiber density between about 5.0 and about 10 fibers/mm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Ben H. Wells, Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Brian G. Risch, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, John R. Sach, Jeffrey Scott Barker
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Patent number: 11860429Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon includes optical fibers (e.g., reduced-diameter optical fibers) arranged in parallel within optical-fiber units, wherein at least one adjacent pair of optical-fiber units is separated by a longitudinal adhesive-free spacing for a portion of the optical-fiber ribbon's length. Typically, each adjacent pair of optical-fiber units is separated by an adhesive-free spacing for a respective portion of the optical-fiber assembly's longitudinal length. In an exemplary embodiment, longitudinal adhesive-free spacings effectively increase the width of an optical-fiber ribbon formed of reduced-diameter optical fibers so that the optical-fiber ribbon achieves a more conventional optical-fiber ribbon width, thereby facilitating mass-fusion splicing using standard splicing equipment.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Luca Giorgio De Rai
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Patent number: 11796750Abstract: An optical cable includes a plurality of buffer tubes and an outer jacket surrounding the plurality of buffer tubes. Each of the plurality of buffer tubes includes a buffer tube jacket surrounding a plurality of flexible ribbons. The buffer tube jacket includes a first deformable material that has undergone permanent plastic deformation during formation of the optical cable to conform to an irregular axial cross-sectional shape of each respective plurality of flexible ribbons. Each flexible ribbon includes a plurality of optical fibers and a first longitudinal length. For each flexible ribbon, each optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers is attached to an adjacent optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers along a bond region comprising a second longitudinal length that is less than the first longitudinal length.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: PRYSMIAN S.P.A.Inventors: Ben H. Wells, Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Brian G. Risch, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, John R. Sach, Jeffrey Scott Barker
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Publication number: 20230266549Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon having excellent flexibility, strength, and robustness facilitates separation of an optical fiber from the optical-fiber ribbon without damaging the optical fiber's glass core, glass cladding, primary coating, secondary coating, and ink layer, if present.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Brian G. Risch, Andrea Terry, John R. Sach, Jeffrey Scott Barker, Ryan Truong
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Patent number: 11656417Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon having excellent flexibility, strength, and robustness facilitates separation of an optical fiber from the optical-fiber ribbon without damaging the optical fiber's glass core, glass cladding, primary coating, secondary coating, and ink layer, if present.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Brian G. Risch, Andrea Terry, John R. Sach, Jeffrey Scott Barker, Ryan Truong
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Publication number: 20220326461Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon includes optical fibers (e.g., reduced-diameter optical fibers) arranged in parallel within optical-fiber units, wherein at least one adjacent pair of optical-fiber units is separated by a longitudinal adhesive-free spacing for a portion of the optical-fiber ribbon's length. Typically, each adjacent pair of optical-fiber units is separated by an adhesive-free spacing for a respective portion of the optical-fiber assembly's longitudinal length. In an exemplary embodiment, longitudinal adhesive-free spacings effectively increase the width of an optical-fiber ribbon formed of reduced-diameter optical fibers so that the optical-fiber ribbon achieves a more conventional optical-fiber ribbon width, thereby facilitating mass-fusion splicing using standard splicing equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Luca Giorgio De Rai
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Patent number: 11460652Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon includes intermittent gaps along its longitudinal length in which no bonding material is present across the width of the optical-fiber ribbon. These intermittent gaps without bonding material (e.g., adhesive beads) help to reduce or eliminate bonding-material interference as the optical-fiber ribbon is positioned within an alignment chuck during preparations for mass-fusion splicing.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Luca Giorgio De Rai
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Patent number: 11460636Abstract: A fiber separation tool is provided. The fiber separation tool includes a fin configured to maintain the fiber separation tool in a parallel orientation with respect to a plurality of fibers, a hook tip at a first end of the fin, wherein the hook tip is configured to separate the plurality of fibers, a blade disposed in the fin above the hook tip, wherein a portion of a cutting edge of the blade protrudes from a blade opening in the fin, and wherein the blade is configured to slice through a bonding material connecting the plurality of fibers, a lip at each side of the blade opening, wherein the lip is configured to prevent individual fibers of the plurality of fibers from contacting the blade, and a pivot point configured to guide the fiber separation tool between the individual fibers.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.Inventors: Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Ehsan Fallahmohammadi
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Patent number: 11442238Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon includes optical fibers (e.g., reduced-diameter optical fibers) arranged in parallel within optical-fiber units, wherein at least one adjacent pair of optical-fiber units is separated by a longitudinal adhesive-free spacing for a portion of the optical-fiber ribbon's length. Typically, each adjacent pair of optical-fiber units is separated by an adhesive-free spacing for a respective portion of the optical-fiber assembly's longitudinal length. In an exemplary embodiment, longitudinal adhesive-free spacings effectively increase the width of an optical-fiber ribbon formed of reduced-diameter optical fibers so that the optical-fiber ribbon achieves a more conventional optical-fiber ribbon width, thereby facilitating mass-fusion splicing using standard splicing equipment.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Luca Giorgio De Rai
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Publication number: 20220196944Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon includes intermittent gaps along its longitudinal length in which no bonding material is present across the width of the optical-fiber ribbon. These intermittent gaps without bonding material (e.g., adhesive beads) help to reduce or eliminate bonding-material interference as the optical-fiber ribbon is positioned within an alignment chuck during preparations for mass-fusion splicing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Luca Giorgio De Rai
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Publication number: 20220196946Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon includes optical fibers (e.g., reduced-diameter optical fibers) arranged in parallel within optical-fiber units, wherein at least one adjacent pair of optical-fiber units is separated by a longitudinal adhesive-free spacing for a portion of the optical-fiber ribbon's length. Typically, each adjacent pair of optical-fiber units is separated by an adhesive-free spacing for a respective portion of the optical-fiber assembly's longitudinal length. In an exemplary embodiment, longitudinal adhesive-free spacings effectively increase the width of an optical-fiber ribbon formed of reduced-diameter optical fibers so that the optical-fiber ribbon achieves a more conventional optical-fiber ribbon width, thereby facilitating mass-fusion splicing using standard splicing equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Luca Giorgio De Rai
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Publication number: 20220155541Abstract: An optical cable includes a plurality of buffer tubes and an outer jacket surrounding the plurality of buffer tubes. Each of the plurality of buffer tubes includes a buffer tube jacket surrounding a plurality of flexible ribbons. The buffer tube jacket includes a first deformable material that has undergone permanent plastic deformation during formation of the optical cable to conform to an irregular axial cross-sectional shape of each respective plurality of flexible ribbons. Each flexible ribbon includes a plurality of optical fibers and a first longitudinal length. For each flexible ribbon, each optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers is attached to an adjacent optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers along a bond region comprising a second longitudinal length that is less than the first longitudinal length.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Ben H. Wells, Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Brian G. Risch, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, John R. Sach, Jeffrey Scott Barker
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Publication number: 20220155540Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon having excellent flexibility, strength, and robustness facilitates separation of an optical fiber from the optical-fiber ribbon without damaging the optical fiber's glass core, glass cladding, primary coating, secondary coating, and ink layer, if present.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Brian G. Risch, Andrea Terry, John R. Sach, Jeffrey Scott Barker, Ryan Truong
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Patent number: 11262516Abstract: An optical cable includes a plurality of deformable buffer tubes and an outer jacket surrounding the plurality of deformable buffer tubes. Each deformable buffer tube of the plurality of deformable buffer tubes includes a single flexible ribbon including a plurality of optical fibers. Each deformable buffer tube further includes an axial cross-section of the deformable buffer tube that includes the single flexible ribbon. The axial cross-section comprises an irregular shape.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: PRYSMIAN S.P.A.Inventors: Ben H. Wells, Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Brian G. Risch, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, John R. Sach, Jeffrey Scott Barker
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Patent number: 11256051Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon having excellent flexibility, strength, and robustness facilitates separation of an optical fiber from the optical-fiber ribbon without damaging the optical fiber's glass core, glass cladding, primary coating, secondary coating, and ink layer, if present.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Brian G. Risch, Andrea Terry, John R. Sach, Jeffrey Scott Barker, Ryan Truong
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Patent number: 11169342Abstract: An optical-fiber ribbon having excellent flexibility, strength, and robustness includes optical fibers having a sacrificial, outer release layer that facilitates separation of an optical fiber from the optical-fiber ribbon without damaging the optical fiber's glass core, glass cladding, primary coating, secondary coating, and ink layer, if present.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Brian G. Risch, Andrea Terry, John R. Sach, Jeffrey Scott Barker
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Publication number: 20210278593Abstract: A fiber separation tool is provided. The fiber separation tool includes a fin configured to maintain the fiber separation tool in a parallel orientation with respect to a plurality of fibers, a hook tip at a first end of the fin, wherein the hook tip is configured to separate the plurality of fibers, a blade disposed in the fin above the hook tip, wherein a portion of a cutting edge of the blade protrudes from a blade opening in the fin, and wherein the blade is configured to slice through a bonding material connecting the plurality of fibers, a lip at each side of the blade opening, wherein the lip is configured to prevent individual fibers of the plurality of fibers from contacting the blade, and a pivot point configured to guide the fiber separation tool between the individual fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Ehsan Fallahmohammadi
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Patent number: 11069460Abstract: A fire resistant cable includes cable at least one conductor and at least one mica layer surrounding the at least one conductors. The fire resistant cable further includes a first layer of insulation surrounding the at least one mica layer and a second layer of insulation surrounding the first layer of insulation. The first and second layers of insulation are made of a composition based on a flame retardant ceramifiable silicone rubber. The second layer of insulation further contains a reinforcement material.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Clint Nicholaus Anderson
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Patent number: 10884213Abstract: A method of producing an optical-fiber ribbon includes applying bonding material to a major surface of an optical-fiber assembly via a dispenser that is revolving around a central axis to bond adjacent optical fibers in the optical-fiber assembly. The method, which facilitates faster line speeds, achieves an optical-fiber ribbon with an adhesive bead that forms a distorted sinusoidal pattern substantially across the width of the optical-fiber assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.Inventors: Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Brian G. Risch, Clint Nicholaus Anderson