ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,096, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical device and method for manufacturing optical device" was invented by Atsushi Izawa (Tokyo), Jun Miyokawa (Tokyo), Maiko Ariga (Tokyo), Kazuya Nagashima (Tokyo), Yozo Ishikawa (Tokyo) and Taketsugu Sawamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes: a case; a sleeve attached to the case, the sleeve including a first through-hole penetrating between an inside and an outside of the case, and an inclined surface inclined with respect to a penetrating direction of the first through-hole, the inclined surface having an opening of the ...