ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,601, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Line concentrator optical communication apparatus and control method" was invented by Sang-Yuep Kim (Musashino, Japan) and Junichi Kani (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A line concentration optical communication device that communicates with a plurality of optical communication devices by free-space optical communication includes: an optical device control unit that controls an angle of a spatial optical device in each time slot on the basis of angle information and the time slot, the angle information being information indicating an angle at which each of the...