US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, NIPPON TSUSHIN DENZAI on May 5 for "Adapter and optical connection structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,032, issued on May 5, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and NIPPON TSUSHIN DENZAI Co. LTD. (Komaki, Japan).

"Adapter and optical connection structure" was invented by Fumiya Uehara (Osaka, Japan), Sho Yakabe (Osaka, Japan), Takako Sashida (Osaka, Japan), Yuto Fujihara (Osaka, Japan), Dai Sasaki (Osaka, Japan), Motoyoshi Kimura (Komaki, Japan) and Manabu Izaki (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter includes a tubular body having a tubular shape and surrounding a pair of ferrules over half a circumference or more with a ling along a first direction as an axis. The tubular body includes a g...