ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,027, issued on June 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Optical fiber ribbon" was invented by Toshihisa Sato (Osaka, Japan) and Takashi Fujii (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an intermittently coupled optical fiber ribbon in which a bonded portion in which adjacent optical fibers are bonded by an adhesive resin and a non-bonded portion are intermittently provided in a longitudinal direction. The bonded portion is provided on one side of the optical fiber ribbon. A part of the bonded portion protrudes further than a tangent line passing through surfaces of the adjacent optical f...