US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC on May 20 for "Optical connector and optical connector connection structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,445, issued on May 20, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical connector and optical connector connection structure" was invented by Kengo Watanabe (Tokyo), Mitsuhiro Iwaya (Tokyo), Masayoshi Tsukamoto (Tokyo) and Katsuki Suematsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an optical connector includes at least one optical fiber; and a lens element including at least one lens that couples light to an end face of the optical fiber. The distance FLh between the end face of the optical fiber and a vertex of the lens is expressed by the sum of the distance FL from the vertex of the lens t...