US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Dec. 30 for "Optical fiber cable and cable with connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,716, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical fiber cable and cable with connector" was invented by Fumiaki Sato (Osaka, Japan), Yuuki Shimoda (Osaka, Japan), Yohei Suzuki (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroki Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber cable includes optical fiber ribbons and a sheath covering a periphery of the plurality of optical fiber ribbons. Each of the optical fiber ribbon includes optical fibers, and a connected portion and a non-connected portion are intermittently provided in the longitudinal direction. Each optical fiber includes a glass ...