ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,244, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Storage unit and wound body" was invented by Go Taki (Chiba, Japan), Shengyang Luo (Chiba, Japan), Masayuki Ishioka (Chiba, Japan) and Minoru Takahashi (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage unit includes a wound body made of wound linear material and a storage body that stores the wound body. The wound body includes a first spiral part in which the wound linear material is spirally wound in a first winding direction such that a distance between the wound linear material of the first spiral part and a center of the wound body gradually decreases, a first in...