ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,580, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical space communication apparatus, control method for controlling optical space communication apparatus, and control apparatus for controlling optical space communication apparatus" was invented by Masaki Aizono (Tokyo) and Hisashi Mizumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a novel optical space communication apparatus which is capable of inferring a hindrance factor to communication carried out with laser light. An optical space communication apparatus includes light receiving sections that each receive laser light and at least one processor, the at leas...