ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,461, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring control device, optical transmission path monitoring device, and monitoring control method" was invented by Daisuke Katsukura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring control device and an optical transmission path monitoring device include a path information reception circuit for receiving optical path information indicating an optical path state when a path of signal light propagating through an optical transmission path is switched; and a transmission coefficient determination circuit for determining a transmission coefficient for use in monitoring a st...