US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, NIPPON TSUSHIN DENZAI on Feb. 17 for "Optical connection structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,071, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and NIPPON TSUSHIN DENZAI Co. LTD. (Komaki, Japan).

"Optical connection structure" was invented by Sho Yakabe (Osaka, Japan) and Motoyoshi Kimura (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connection structure including a first ferrule, a second ferrule, and an adapter is disclosed. The first ferrule includes a distal end portion where a first light incidence/emission unit is formed. The second ferrule includes a distal end portion where a second light incidence/emission unit is formed. Each first side surface of both the ferrules i...