US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC on Sept. 9 for "Communication apparatus, communication system, storage medium, and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,312, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus, communication system, storage medium, and communication method" was invented by Tomoaki Terasaki (Tokyo) and Kenichi Goto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access optical node includes an optical signal processing unit that transmits a received optical signal to a destination node. The optical signal processing unit includes a path switching unit that switches between a first path for transmitting the received optical signal to the destination node as it is as an optical signal, and a second path for transmitting the received...