ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,093, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical module and manufacturing method of optical module" was invented by Naoki Itabashi (Osaka, Japan), Kosuke Sekiguchi (Osaka, Japan), Michio Suzuki (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoya Saeki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes an optical semiconductor element a stem including a signal pin and a ground pin; and a circuit board, the circuit board including a signal through-hole, a ground through-hole, a ground layer, and a junction part, the signal through-hole being configured to be pierced by the signal pin, the gr...