ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,041, issued on May 5, was assigned to ELKA INTERNATIONAL LTD. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
"Optoelectronic cable" was invented by Kai-Hsuan Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yi-Chieh Cheng (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic cable comprises an optical fiber wire disposed at the center of the optoelectronic cable, with an armoring layer that is arranged at a periphery of the optical fiber wire. A plurality of electric wires is disposed around the periphery of the optical fiber wire, and an outer sheath is disposed as an outermost layer of the optoelectronic cable. By arranging the armoring layer at th...