US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on March 4 for "Optical cable laying method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,125, issued on March 4, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical cable laying method" was invented by Yusuke Yamada (Musashino, Japan), Akira Sakurai (Musashino, Japan), Yuta Maruo (Musashino, Japan), Shigekatsu Tetsutani (Musashino, Japan), Hisashi Izumita (Musashino, Japan) and Hiroaki Tanioka (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of laying an optical cable according to the present disclosure includes: installing a laying strip, in which the optical cable is to be embedded, on a road surface or a wall surface; forming a cut line, for embedding the optical cable, on the installed lay...