ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,501, issued on June 24, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Optical connection component and connector assembly" was invented by Yoshifumi Koike (Sakura, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connection component includes: an input end that separates each of light beams output from an output end surface of a multi-core fiber toward single-core fibers, and enlarges each beam diameter of the light beams; and an output end that allows the light beams from the input end to be parallel to an axial direction of the multi-core fiber. The optical connection component guides the light beams output from the output end surface, in...