US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on April 7 for "Optical module and optical connector cable" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,234, issued on April 7, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical module and optical connector cable" was invented by Kensaku Shimada (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Inoue (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Ishida (Osaka, Japan) and Tatsuhiko Naito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes a substrate, an optical element, and an optical coupling module. The substrate includes a glass cloth constituted of glass threads serving as weft and warp. An outer edge of the substrate has a rectangular shape defined by a pair of first side surfaces in a predetermined direction and a pair of second side...