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To: Kevin G. O'Neill who wrote (5958)	12/21/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: Rob Pierce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

I'd not heard of either Huber or Corvis until this story, however... I did a patent database lookup and found that he was granted a patent recently (20oct98) for "Optical demultiplexers with grating reflectors" (#5,825,520). On other patents, he was one of a team of inventors, and the team's patents are assigned to Ciena. This last patent is invented by him alone, and is not assigned to anyone. Thus it's likely that Corvis will be his way of bringing it to light. Unfortunately, I don't completely comprehend the patent's significance. Can anyone translate the "patentese" into English and/or why it's significant? As for my proximity to Corvis, Columbia is a suburb of Baltimore on the opposite side of the city from me. Rob Pierce