ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,571, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Optical communication device and control method for optical communication device" was invented by Yoshirou Satou (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this optical communication device, the multiple optical signal processing units are provided on one optical path; and on the basis of a mask setting that is set by a specific optical signal processing unit, which is among the multiple optical signal processing units and includes the detection unit that has detected the failure, for a next-stage optical signal processing unit connected to the optical path after the specific ...