US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on June 30 for "Optical fiber unit, optical fiber cable, connector-equipped cable, and method for connecting optical fiber unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,665, issued on June 30, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical fiber unit, optical fiber cable, connector-equipped cable, and method for connecting optical fiber unit" was invented by Fumiaki Sato (Osaka, Japan), Masakazu Takami (Osaka, Japan), Yuuki Shimoda (Osaka, Japan) and Takako Muramoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber unit includes a plurality of optical fibers, a fibrous filler disposed along the plurality of optical fibers, and a resin film covering the plurality of optical fibers and the fibrous filler from outside. In the optical fiber unit, the resin film ha...