ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,497, issued on March 18, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Optical module" was invented by Ryota Fujihara (Tokyo) and Seiji Nakano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes: a stem made of metal; a ground pin including a pin portion and a joint portion having a diameter larger than a diameter of the pin portion and joined to an outer flat surface of the stem; a flexible printed circuit including a wiring pattern on a front surface and a ground pattern having an exposed surface at a position facing the outer flat surface of the stem on a back surface, in which a tip portion of the pin portion ...