US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Jan. 13 for "Optical fiber bundle and optical switch" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,823, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical fiber bundle and optical switch" was invented by Osamu Shimakawa (Osaka, Japan), Hidehisa Tazawa (Osaka, Japan) and Masato Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, in an optical fiber bundle, in the cross section, arrangement of cores of a first multi-core fiber and arrangement of cores of a second multi-core fiber are the same as each other, arrangement of cores of a third multi-core fiber and arrangement of cores of a fourth multi-core fiber are the same as each other, and when the first multi-c...