US Patent Issued to NTT on Sept. 15 for "Ultraviolet light transmission system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,038, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Ultraviolet light transmission system" was invented by Chisato Fukai (Musashino, Japan), Tomohiro Taniguchi (Musashino, Japan), Kazuhide Nakajima (Musashino, Japan), Ayako Iwaki (Musashino, Japan), Takashi Matsui (Musashino, Japan), Nobutomo Hanzawa (Musashino, Japan), Yuto Sagae (Musashino, Japan), Kazutaka Hara (Musashino, Japan) and Atsuko Kawakita (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultraviolet optical transmission system, in which light with an ultraviolet band is transmitted along an optical transmission path formed of a quartz-based optical fiber, and...