ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,818, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Optical connector module and method of manufacturing optical waveguide board" was invented by Masatoshi Tsunoda (Machida, Japan), Takahiro Suzuki (Yamato, Japan) and Mitsuaki Tounoo (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connector module (1) according to the present disclosure includes an optical waveguide board (10) and an optical connector (20) attached to the optical waveguide board (10). The optical connector (20) includes a positioning target portion (23) that engages with the optical waveguide board (10), and the optical connector (20) is...