ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,179, issued on March 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical coupling system and optical communication device" was invented by Yukito Saitoh (Minamiashigara, Japan), Makoto Kamo (Minamiashigara, Japan), Megumi Sekiguchi (Minamiashigara, Japan) and Yujiro Yanai (Minamiashigara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide an optical coupling system having a simplified structure and a small size and an optical communication device using the optical coupling system. The object is achieved by an optical coupling system that couples a multi-core fiber and coupled devices to each other using a combination of a...