ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,448, issued on May 20, was assigned to FOCI FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Alignment structure of optical element" was invented by Ting-Ta Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsu-Liang Hsiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Po-Yi Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment structure of an optical element includes an optical fiber having a parallel fiber segment and a plurality of bare fiber segments, a cover plate provided with a plurality of side-by-side guide grooves and a plurality of first coupling parts, the bare fiber segments of the optical fiber being arranged in the corresponding guide grooves, cross-sectiona...