ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,810, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to 1FINITY (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Optical transmission equipment, optical transmission system, and Raman amplifier control method" was invented by Takashi Sato (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical transmission equipment includes an optical transceiver circuit that transmits and receives signal light and supervisory light, a forward Raman amplifier provided at a transmitter end of the optical transceiver circuit, a backward Raman amplifier provided at a receiver end of the optical transceiver circuit, and a processor that controls the forward Raman amplifier and the backward Raman amp...