US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Jan. 20 for "Resin composition, secondary coating material for optical fiber, optical fiber, and method for manufacturing optical fiber" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,926, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Resin composition, secondary coating material for optical fiber, optical fiber, and method for manufacturing optical fiber" was invented by Katsushi Hamakubo (Osaka, Japan) and Chiaki Tokuda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin composition contains a base resin containing a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, and surface-modified silica particles, wherein the surface-modified silica particles have, as a silicone structural unit, a T unit in which three oxygen atoms are bonded to a silicon atom, and t...