US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Jan. 27 for "Optical fiber cable and cable with connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,645, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical fiber cable and cable with connector" was invented by Akihisa Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Yuuki Shimoda (Osaka, Japan) and Fumiaki Sato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber cable includes a central tensile strength member, a plurality of optical fibers disposed around the central tensile strength member, a set of tensile strength members arranged outside the plurality of optical fibers, and a sheath disposed outside the plurality of optical fibers, in which at least four sets of the tensile strength member are spac...