ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,095, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical module, optical connector cable, and method for producing optical module" 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, an optical coupling module, and an adhesive. The substrate includes a glass cloth therein. The optical element is mounted on the substrate. The optical coupling module is configured to be optically coupled to the optical element. The ad...