US Patent Issued to Fujikura on Jan. 13 for "Optical termination box" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,835, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Optical termination box" was invented by Hiroyuki Takamizawa (Sakura, Japan), Toshiaki Nakajima (Sakura, Japan) and Tomoyuki Shinoda (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical termination box includes a housing, a module case slidably attached in a front-rear direction with respect to the housing, a front adapter fixed to a front end of the module case, an adapter holder disposed on a rear end side of the module case, a rear adapter fixed to the adapter holder, and an optical fiber that connects the front adapter to the rear adapter. The adapter holder is fi...