US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on April 14 for "Optical fiber alignment method and alignment device, and connection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,876, issued on April 14, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical fiber alignment method and alignment device, and connection device" was invented by Tetsu Morishima (Osaka, Japan), Shintaro Mouri (Osaka, Japan), Soichi Endo (Osaka, Japan) and Akinori Kimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber alignment method makes it possible to reduce the time required for alignment work for an optical fiber. This alignment method includes: an image acquisition step of acquiring an end surface image of an optical fiber; a measurement step of measuring arrangement data relating to a plura...