US Patent Issued to Twinstar Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Optical fiber array connector device" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,344, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Twinstar Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Optical fiber array connector device" was invented by Jinxi Shen (San Ramon, Calif.), Wei Hou (Shanghai), Kuishan Liu (Xiangyang, China) and Lianjun Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber array unit of an optical connector includes an opposing pair of grooved plates holding at least three rows of optical fibers between them, with at least some of the optical fibers in each of the at least three rows touching two optical fibers of an adjacent one of the at least three rows. Each grooved plate of the opposing pair has an array of ...