ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,708, issued on April 8, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Housing unit and wound body" was invented by Takafumi Sato (Sakura, Japan), Masayuki Ishioka (Sakura, Japan), Ryo Inagaki (Sakura, Japan) and Ken Osato (Sakura, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing unit includes: a linear material; and a housing body that houses the linear material. In the housing body, winding regions in which the linear material is wound are disposed in a circumferential direction. The linear material is wound in a figure eight in a first region pair constituted by a pair of the winding regions. The linear material is wound in a figure eight ...