US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on June 10 for "Optical-fiber ribbon, die, and method of manufacturing optical-fiber ribbon" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,606, issued on June 10, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical-fiber ribbon, die, and method of manufacturing optical-fiber ribbon" was invented by Reo Amano (Osaka, Japan), Deva Omalka Vayanthi Suduwa (Osaka, Japan), Kentaro Takeda (Osaka, Japan), Makoto Itoh (Osaka, Japan) and Ken Manabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical-fiber ribbon includes a plurality of optical-fibers, and a common covering layer. There are formed a plurality of intermittent connection portions in which a first connection portion that is formed from the common covering layer and a non-connection portion ...