US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on May 19 for "Optical fiber cable and method for manufacturing optical fiber cable" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,842, issued on May 19, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical fiber cable and method for manufacturing optical fiber cable" was invented by Fumiaki Sato (Osaka, Japan), Kenta Tsuchiya (Osaka, Japan) and Eimi Kasai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber cable includes: a spacer including a plurality of ribs and a plurality of grooves defined by the plurality of ribs; a plurality of optical fiber units accommodated in each of the plurality of grooves; and a cable sheath configured to cover the spacer and the plurality of optical fiber units. The spacer and the cable sheath are i...