US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Communication device and communication device configuration method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,601, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and communication device configuration method" was invented by Hiroaki Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a technology for realizing a communication device capable of providing various functions without increasing the types of hardware, this communication device used for a submarine cable system includes a plurality of functions blocks; the function bocks each include interfaces to which an optical signal can be connected; one of the function blocks can be optically connected with a land communication network through the int...