ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,020, issued on June 3, was assigned to NTT ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Optical connector cleaning tool" was invented by Terumasa Kamouchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazutoshi Ando (Kanagawa, Japan) and Etsu Hashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connector cleaning tool includes a cleaning tool main body, a feed-side bobbin, a cleaning head (cleaning portion), a winding-side bobbin, a moving body that moves at the time of cleaning, a feed mechanism that sends an unused cleaning medium in synchronism with the moving body, and a winding mechanism that drives the winding-side bobbin. The feed mechan...