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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,034, issued on May 5, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and NIPPON TSUSHIN DENZAI Co. LTD. (Komaki, Japan).

"Ferrule, optical connector, and optical connection structure" was invented by Sho Yakabe (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: "A ferrule includes an optical fiber holding portion configured to hold a plurality of optical fibers, and a first side surface and a second side surface facing each other in a second direction intersecting a first direction in which the optical ...