ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,031, issued on June 2, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Method for manufacturing optical fiber connecting component" was invented by Tetsu Morishima (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an optical fiber splicing component includes preparing a plurality of optical fibers each including a glass fiber including a core and a cladding covering the core, and a resin coating covering the glass fiber, an end portion of the glass fiber being exposed from the resin coating, mounting the plurality of glass fibers on an optical fiber holding member so that the plurality of glass...