ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,200, issued on April 22, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical element-including opto-electric hybrid board" was invented by Naoto Konegawa (Osaka, Japan), Kazuaki Suzuki (Osaka, Japan) and Shinya Ota (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element-including opto-electric hybrid board includes an opto-electric hybrid board including an optical waveguide and an electric circuit board in order toward one side in a thickness direction, an optical element mounted on the electric circuit board at one side in the thickness direction of the opto-electric hybrid board, and a bonding member interposed betwe...