US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Sept. 9 for "Bandwidth allocation device and bandwidth allocation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,095, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Bandwidth allocation device and bandwidth allocation method" was invented by Hiroyuki Uzawa (Yokosuka, Japan), Tatsuya Shimada (Yokosuka, Japan), Daisuke Hisano (Yokosuka, Japan) and Hiroko Nomura (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bandwidth allocation device is included in a communication system having a terminal station device and a terminal device and relaying upstream data, which is received from a communication terminal by a lower device connected to the terminal device, to an upper device connected to the terminal station devi...