US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Oct. 7 for "Optical fiber ribbon, optical fiber connection component, and method for manufacturing optical fiber connection component" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,351, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical fiber ribbon, optical fiber connection component, and method for manufacturing optical fiber connection component" was invented by Tetsu Morishima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of optical fibers each including a glass fiber including a core and a cladding covering the core, and a resin coating covering the glass fiber, the plurality of optical fibers being arranged in parallel. In the optical fiber ribbon, a distance between central axes of adjacent optical fibers among the plura...