ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,251, issued on July 22, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical communication module substrate" was invented by Tadao Okawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Takashi Oda (Ibaraki, Japan), Masataka Yamaji (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kazushi Ichikawa (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical communication module substrate includes a wiring board and an opto-electronic hybrid substrate, the wiring board and the opto-electronic hybrid substrate being connected to each other, in which a connection terminal of the wiring board and a connection terminal of the opto-electronic hybrid substrate are electrical connection points, an...