US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Feb. 3 for "Method for manufacturing optical fiber and optical fiber" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,050, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing optical fiber and optical fiber" was invented by Takahiro Nomura (Osaka, Japan), Kazuyuki Sohma (Osaka, Japan) and Iwao Okazaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an optical fiber includes: melting an optical fiber preform and drawing a glass fiber; applying a resin composition to an outer periphery of the glass fiber; and curing the resin composition applied, wherein an amount of eccentricity of a central axis of the glass fiber, in a cross section perpendicular to the central axis of...