ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,942, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Fusion splicing device" was invented by Takahiro Suwa (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroki Akiyama (Yokohama, Japan) and Kazuyoshi Ooki (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fusion splicing device according to an embodiment is a fusion splicing device of an optical fiber performing fusion-splicing by position-aligning the optical fiber that is a splicing target in a V-shaped groove. The fusion splicing device includes a microscope receiving light from a light source and passing through an optical fiber mounted on a V-shaped groove to ...