US Patent Issued to Enplas on Sept. 16 for "Ferrule, optical connector, and optical connector module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,765, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Enplas Corp. (Saitama, Japan).

"Ferrule, optical connector, and optical connector module" was invented by Masato Nakamura (Saitama, Japan), Yuto Kujirai (Saitama, Japan) and Ayano Hinata (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ferrule includes a holding part, a first surface and a second surface. The holding part includes a first holding recess including the first surface and a third surface facing the first surface, a first wall, at least one through hole that is open at the third surface and a fourth surface, the fourth surface being located on a side on which the plurality of opti...