US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on June 2 for "Optical connection structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,040, issued on June 2, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical connection structure" was invented by Tsutaru Kumagai (Osaka, Japan), Tetsuya Nakanishi (Osaka, Japan), Hajime Arao (Osaka, Japan) and Yuuichi Mitose (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The optical connection structure includes: optical fibers disposed such that end faces are arranged in a first direction; an optical functional component having a first surface facing the end faces of the optical fibers; a holding member having a second surface facing the first surface and directly or indirectly fixed to the first surface, a third...