US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER, JAPAN COMMUNICATION ACCESSORIES MANUFACTURING, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC LIGHTWAVE on March 11 for "Optical connection structure, optical connector, and optical connecting method" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,185, issued on March 11, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan), SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan), JAPAN COMMUNICATION ACCESSORIES MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Komaki, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC LIGHTWAVE CORP. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Optical connection structure, optical connector, and optical connecting method" was invented by Masaki Omura (Osaka, Japan), Motoyoshi Kimura (Komaki, Japan), Takayuki Yokochi (Osaka, Japan), Shunichi Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Junji Fukui (Yokohama, Japan), Yasuyuki Maekawa (Yokohama, Japan), Takayuki Shimazu (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Kondo (Raleigh, N.C.) and Kenichiro Otsuka (Osaka, Japan).

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