ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,005, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical control device, optical transmission device, and signal light setting method" was invented by Tatsuhiro Nakada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A burden for configurating optical transmission equipment is increased as capacity in an optical transmission system is increased. An optical control device according to the present invention includes a storage means for storing transmission characteristics information in advance, the transmission characteristics information relating to an optical transmission system that transmits signal light via an optical transmission ...