ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,006, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Network management apparatus, communication apparatus, and network management system" was invented by Morihiko Ota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical communication network including a plurality of communication apparatuses being connected by a transmission path transmitting WDM signal light in which a plurality of optical signals are performed wavelength division multiplexing, a network management apparatus includes an addition control unit that controls a first communication apparatus, when the first communication apparatus adds the optical signal to the WDM ...