US Patent Issued to Fujikura, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on March 18 for "Fiber cutter and fiber cutting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,717, issued on March 18, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo) and NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fiber cutter and fiber cutting method" was invented by Takaharu Matsuda (Chiba, Japan), Guan Huang (Chiba, Japan), Ryo Koyama (Tokyo), Masaaki Takaya (Tokyo), Yoshiteru Abe (Tokyo) and Chisato Fukai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber cutter includes: a gripping member that grips an optical fiber; a blade that forms an initial cut in the optical fiber gripped by the gripping member; and a bending part that applies a predetermined bending stress to the optical fiber when the blade forms the initial cut in the op...