ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,005, issued on April 7, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Station side optical line terminal and registration method" was invented by Ryo Koma (Musashino, Japan), Kazutaka Hara (Musashino, Japan) and Junichi Kani (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical line terminal includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of optical network units, and a control unit configured to dynamically change at least one of a time width of a specific period and a cycle of the specific period, the specific period being a period in which an authentication request signal is received from the new optical networ...