ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,232, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Optical connector plug, optical connector and manufacturing method of optical waveguide" was invented by Yoshiteru Abe (Musashino, Japan), Yoko Yamashita (Musashino, Japan), Taiji Sakamoto (Musashino, Japan), Takashi Matsui (Musashino, Japan), Kazuhide Nakajima (Musashino, Japan) and Kazunori Katayama (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to connect an optical fiber and an optical waveguide with a low loss.The present disclosure is an optical connector plug, including: an optical waveguide having two guide pin V-grooves engraved...