ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,956, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Manufacturing tool for optical connector" was invented by Masayuki Hirose (Sakura, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing tool for an optical connector includes: a tool body that includes a concave part; a handle that includes an operating part and a contact part; and a connecting shaft that rotatably connects the handle to the tool body. The handle is rotatable between: a stand-by position, and a push-into position in which a larger portion of the contact part is disposed inside the concave part than in the stand-by position. A direction in which the opera...