US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 18 for "Submarine branching unit, and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,164, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Submarine branching unit, and control method" was invented by Andre Arashiro (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of present disclosure is to provide a submarine branching unit, a control method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium capable of implementing path switching of optical cables by using a smaller number of optical switches. A submarine branching unit according to the present disclosure includes: first to third optical switches each including first to fourth terminals; and a control unit configured to control a connection of each of the first to...