ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,040, issued on May 5, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Optical fiber module" was invented by Hong Chuyen Nguyen (Osaka, Japan), Tetsuya Nakanishi (Osaka, Japan) and Takayuki Yokochi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber module is attached to and detached from a host device having an optical engine and an internal optical connector optically connected to the optical engine. The optical fiber module includes a housing having a first surface exposed in a state of being attached to the host device and a second surface facing the first surface; at least one first optical connector pr...