US Patent Issued to NITTO DENKO on Sept. 22 for "Plastic optical fiber, hybrid cable, patch cord, and active optical cable" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,924, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Plastic optical fiber, hybrid cable, patch cord, and active optical cable" was invented by Takashi Shimizu (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Ohmura (Osaka, Japan) and Takeshi Saito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plastic optical fiber includes a core and a clad disposed on an outer circumference of the core. The core includes a first resin, and the clad includes a second resin. The first resin has a first glass transition temperature Tg1 of 120deg C. or higher. The second resin has a second glass transition temperature Tg2 of 120deg C. or higher. When t...