US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on Jan. 28 for "Optical module and manufacturing method of optical module for optical communication" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,231, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical module and manufacturing method of optical module for optical communication" was invented by Keiji Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Uemura (Osaka, Japan) and Taichi Misawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an optical module includes: a lid having a first face and a second face, the lid including a bump, a wiring, and a through via; an optical circuit element; a first integrated circuit (IC); a first block bonded to the first IC by a first adhesive; a temperature control element bonded to the optical...