US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 22 for "Resin composition for colored coating on optical fiber, optical fiber, and optical fiber ribbon" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,942, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Resin composition for colored coating on optical fiber, optical fiber, and optical fiber ribbon" was invented by Katsushi Hamakubo (Osaka, Japan), Noriaki Iwaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Miho Ikegawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin composition for colored coating on an optical fiber contains a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, a photosensitizer, and an organic pigment, in which the photosensitizer includes at least one selected from the group consisting of an anthracene-based photosensitizer and a ...