US Patent Issued to Proterial on June 23 for "Peripheral surface-emitting linear light guide and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,573, issued on June 23, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Peripheral surface-emitting linear light guide and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Kota Tachibana (Tokyo), Ryuta Takahashi (Tokyo) and Seiji Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral surface-emitting linear light guide is provided with an optical fiber including a core, an outer peripheral surface of which is exposed from a cladding at one end in a longitudinal direction, and a light-scattering member that covers an entire periphery of the outer peripheral surface of the core in an exposed portion over a predetermined axial length rang...