US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 27 for "Optical connector connection structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,140, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NTT INC. (Tokyo).

"Optical connector connection structure" was invented by Kota Shikama (Tokyo), Yuzo Ishii (Tokyo), Ryo Nagase (Tokyo) and Norio Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first magnetic structure integrated with a first ferrule is made of a soft magnetic material. A second magnetic structure integrated with a second ferrule is made of a soft magnetic material having a shorter length in a longitudinal direction of optical fibers than that of the first magnetic structure. After connection end faces of the first and second ferrules are connected to each other, third magnetic st...