US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER on June 30 for "Optical connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,655, issued on June 30, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Optical connector" was invented by Yuki Arao (Osaka, Japan), Tetsu Morishima (Osaka, Japan) and Masahiro Shibata (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connector in one embodiment includes an optical fiber, a ferrule assembly, and a housing. The housing has a positioning part defining an accommodation position of the ferrule assembly. The positioning part has an inclined surface with which a part of the ferrule assembly is to contact and the ferrule assembly inclu...