US Patent Issued to KOHOKU KOGYO on May 12 for "Fan-in/Fan-out device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,338, issued on May 12, was assigned to KOHOKU KOGYO Co. LTD. (Nagahama, Japan).

"Fan-in/Fan-out device" was invented by Tomoaki Kiriyama (Nagahama, Japan), Katsuhiro Iwasaki (Nagahama, Japan) and Katsuya Kito (Nagahama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The FIFO device includes an MCF, a first lens having a first optical axis parallel to a center axis of the MCF, a group of second lenses including the same number of second lenses having a second optical axis parallel to the first optical axis as cores of the MCF, and a group of single-core optical fibers including the same number of single-core optical fibers as the second lenses. ...