US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on Sept. 9 for "Optical module and manufacturing method of optical module for optical communication" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,364, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes: a housing having a first face and a second face parallel to the first face; a first block fixed to the first face of the housing by a first adhesive; an integrated circuit (IC) fixed to the first block by a second adhesive having a thickness larger than a thickness of the first adhesive; a thermoe...