ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,687, issued on July 21, was assigned to JIANGSU ZHONGTIAN TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Nantong, China).

"Overhead ribbon cable, manufacturing method and manufacturing system for overhead ribbon cable" was invented by Jing Zhao (Nantong, China), Xiaoming Miao (Nantong, China), Bin Miao (Nantong, China), Menglong Yue (Nantong, China), Huihui Qian (Nantong, China) and Feng Tan (Nantong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an overhead ribbon cable, a manufacturing method, and a manufacturing system for the overhead ribbon cable. The overhead ribbon cable includes an optical fiber ribbon array (10). The optical fiber ribbon array (...