ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,279, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Repeater and monitoring method" was invented by Mamiko Tanaka (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Konishi (Tokyo) and Kenji Ishii (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regenerative relay transponder includes: an optical receiving unit that receives an optical signal from a transmitting device as a reception optical signal and converts the reception optical signal into an electrical signal; an electrical-signal processing unit that executes predetermined processing on the electrical signal; an optical transmitting unit that generates a transmission optical signal by convertin...