ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,271, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Tokyo).

"Optical space communication management device, optical space communication system, and optical space communication management method" was invented by Hideaki Kotake (Tokyo), Yuma Abe (Tokyo), Morio Toyoshima (Tokyo) and Tetsuharu Fuse (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Link control is performed to optical space communication devices, which are installed in a non-terrestrial node group and an optical ground station, and optical space communication is performed using one or more links, based on link path information and ...