US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on April 15 for "Optical connecting component and optical connecting structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,847, issued on April 15, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical connecting component and optical connecting structure" was invented by Kota Shikama (Tokyo), Norio Sato (Tokyo) and Takeshi Sakamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connecting component is an optical connecting component to be connected to another optical connecting component, which includes an optical waveguide component, an alignment component for fixing the optical waveguide component, and a magnetic structure integrated with the alignment component. A positioning structure is provided on a connecting end face of the ali...