US Patent Issued to NEC on July 28 for "Optical communication apparatus, and optical communication system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,514, issued on July 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical communication apparatus, and optical communication system" was invented by Yuta Suzuki (Tokyo) and Morihiko Ota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an optical communication apparatus, an optical communication method, and an optical communication system that each can improve transmission characteristics. An optical communication apparatus includes a monitor unit configured to, when the optical communication apparatus connects to an optical communication network and converts an optical signal received from another optical communication apparatus to a dig...