US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier on June 2 for "Optical fiber fusion splicer and method for fusion splicing optical fiber" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,030, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Optical fiber fusion splicer and method for fusion splicing optical fiber" was invented by Takahiro Suwa (Yokohama, Japan), Kazufumi Joko (Yokohama, Japan), Tomoyoshi Sasaki (Yokohama, Japan) and Kazuyoshi Ooki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber fusion splicer includes an image acquisition unit, a condition setting unit, and a fusion splicing unit. The image acquisition unit acquires an image including each of end surfaces of first and second optical fibers that are splicing targets in a state where the end ...