US Patent Issued to NEC on April 21 for "Optical path identification device, optical path identification method, and storage medium for optical path identification program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,768, issued on April 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical path identification device, optical path identification method, and storage medium for optical path identification program" was invented by Akira Masuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide an optical path identification device and the like whereby it is possible to identify a switched optical path without incorporating a transceiver mechanism into an optical path switching device, this optical path identification device is provided with: an optical path identification unit that identifies whether a connected optical path connected to a first o...