ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,172, issued on March 11, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Method of manufacturing optical connector" was invented by Yuki Arao (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of manufacturing an optical connector, including: preparing a multi-core optical fiber including a glass fiber and a resin coating that covers the glass fiber; inserting the glass fiber exposed from the resin coating into the ferrule such that the glass fiber protrudes from an end surface of a ferrule by a length A; rotating and aligning the multi-core optical fiber with respect to the ferrule; fixing th...