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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael J McFarland, Washington, NJ (US);
Karl W Beeson, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AlliedSignal Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 49 ; 385 52 ; 430321 ; 430326 ;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to an optical coupling device for facilitating the coupling of an optical fiber to an optical waveguide and to a method for fabricating such coupling device. Another aspect of this invention relates to optical fiber to optical waveguide interconnect comprising the coupling device of this invention, and arrays comprising a plurality of such arrays.