US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC on July 21 for "Optical module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,685, issued on July 21, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical module" was invented by Kazuya Nagashima (Tokyo), Atsushi Izawa (Tokyo), Atsushi Kaji (Tokyo) and Go Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes: a casing in which light is propagated; a heating portion; a device arranged inside the casing and configured to change, when heated, characteristics of the light propagated inside the casing; and a first member thermally connected to the heating portion and the device, the first member including a hollow arranged in a heat transfer path from the heating portion to the device a...