US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Nov. 3 for "Inspection method and inspection device of optical fiber ribbon" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,233, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inspection method and inspection device of optical fiber ribbon" was invented by Hiroki Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan), Fumiaki Sato (Osaka, Japan), Kenta Tsuchiya (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Kuroki (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiki Sonoyama (Osaka, Japan), Reo Amano (Osaka, Japan), Kenji Kawai (Osaka, Japan), Kounan Shin (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Yoshikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Itaru Sakabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection method of an optical fiber ribbon where a plurality of optical fibers are intermittently connected in a longitudinal directi...