US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, NIPPON TSUSHIN DENZAI on May 20 for "Ferrule and optical connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,446, issued on May 20, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and NIPPON TSUSHIN DENZAI Co. LTD. (Komaki, Japan).

"Ferrule and optical connector" was invented by Sho Yakabe (Osaka, Japan), Yuto Fujihara (Osaka, Japan), Dai Sasaki (Osaka, Japan), Motoyoshi Kimura (Komaki, Japan) and Manabu Izaki (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ferrule includes: a tip surface; an opening portion provided on a side opposite to the tip surface in a first direction intersecting the tip surface; a plurality of fiber grooves extending along the first direction and arranged along a second direction intersecting the f...