US Patent Issued to SWCC on July 15 for "Optical fiber ribbon and method for producing optical fiber ribbon" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,328, issued on July 15, was assigned to SWCC Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Optical fiber ribbon and method for producing optical fiber ribbon" was invented by Takeshiro Nagai (Kawasaki, Japan) and Takehiko Yamamoto (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber ribbon including a grating formed by a simple method is provided. The optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of single-core coated optical fibers disposed parallel to each other, and a tape layer that covers the single-core coated optical fibers and partially connects adjacent single-core coated optical fibers. The single-core coated optical fibers include a g...