US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on July 28 for "Optical fiber cable and cable with connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,484, issued on July 28, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical fiber cable and cable with connector" was invented by Fumiaki Sato (Osaka, Japan), Ken Takahashi (Osaka, Japan), Yuuki Shimoda (Osaka, Japan), Toyoaki Kimura (Osaka, Japan), Yohei Suzuki (Osaka, Japan) and Takemasa Akiyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber cable includes a cable core including a plurality of optical fibers, at least one tensile strength member provided along the cable core, and a sheath configured to cover the cable core from an outside and enclose the tensile strength member. The tensile str...