ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,279, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical transmission device, communication device, control method and recording medium" was invented by Koya Takata (Tokyo), Hisashi Mizumoto (Tokyo) and Fujio Okumura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A optical transmission device comprising a light source, a spatial light modulator which has a modulation part onto which light emitted from the light source is radiated, and which modulates the phase of the radiated light by means of the modulation part, and a control unit which allocates modulation regions associated with respective communication targets to the...