ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,719, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Accommodation unit and method for manufacturing accommodation unit" was invented by Rikimaru Takeda (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accommodation unit includes: a casing that: stores trays each storing an optical fiber, and includes an insertion opening into which the trays are inserted to be arranged in an up-down direction; and support members disposed in the casing, each of the support members slidably supporting a lower part of each of the trays, and each of the support members including: a pair of arm parts disposed apart from each other in a left-ri...