US Patent Issued to NTT on Aug. 4 for "Optical access network and its design method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,925, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Optical access network and its design method" was invented by Taku Yamane (Musashino, Japan), Chihiro Kito (Musashino, Japan) and Shingo Ono (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an optical access network and a method for designing the same, in which a plurality of optical cable loops, in which optical cables are connected in a loop shape, are disposed between a communication station building and an optical termination position, and the optical cable loops are connected to each other."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2021, under Appli...