ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,961, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Plug connector" was invented by Naoki Katagiyama (Tokyo), Osamu Hashiguchi (Tokyo), Hideto Shimazu (Tokyo), Masayoshi Kagawa (Tokyo), Akihiro Tosaki (Tokyo) and Takayuki Tanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a plug connector that incorporates an optical connector and a photoelectric conversion module connected with the optical connector, the optical connector attached to an optical cable is accommodated in an end bell and the photoelectric conversion module is accommodated in a barrel inserted into a mating receptacle connector. The b...