US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier on March 24 for "Fusion splicing system, operation control method for fusion splicer, and server" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,429, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Fusion splicing system, operation control method for fusion splicer, and server" was invented by Takaharu Ohnishi (Yokohama, Japan), Kazuyoshi Ooki (Yokohama, Japan) and Takahiro Suzuki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fusion splicing system includes a fusion splicer including a fusion mechanism to fusion-splice optical fibers, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the fusion mechanism, a first information terminal capable of communicating with the fusion splicer, and a server capable of communicat...