US Patent Issued to Enplas on Sept. 16 for "Device for producing optical connector and method for producing optical connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,767, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Enplas Corp. (Saitama, Japan).

"Device for producing optical connector and method for producing optical connector" was invented by Ayano Hinata (Saitama, Japan) and Takayuki Sukegawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connector production device of the present invention is configured to produce an optical connector that includes a ferrule and a first optical transmission member. The production device includes a jig body, and a fixing part which allows the ferrule to fit thereto to hold the ferrule and which is disposed in the jig body."

The patent was filed on March 8,...