US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier on March 17 for "Fusion splicing device and core position specification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,533, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Fusion splicing device and core position specification method" was invented by Takahiro Suwa (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroki Akiyama (Yokohama, Japan) and Kazuyoshi Ooki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fusion splicing device according to one embodiment includes: a discharge electrode; a microscope acquiring luminance information from the optical fiber; a distribution information acquisition unit acquiring distribution information indicating a relationship between a position of the optical fiber in a radial direction and t...