ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,682, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical communication system, optical communication method and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Ankith Vinayachandran (Tokyo), Manabu Arikawa (Tokyo) and Kohei Hosokawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical communication system capable of solving frequent pilot pattern/training symbol requirement which leads to a reduced information throughput is provided. An optical communication system includes a pilot insertion means that inserts pilot signal according to an adaptive pilot overhead ratio, a system estimate means that estimates the charac...