US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Aug. 26 for "Method of manufacturing optical fiber and optical-fiber-manufacturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,315, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing optical fiber and optical-fiber-manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Nomura (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuyuki Sohma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an optical fiber includes applying a curable resin composition containing a photopolymerization initiator so that an outer circumference of a glass fiber including a core and a cladding is coated, and forming a coating layer by radiating an ultraviolet ray to the curable resin composition and curing the curable resin composition. ...