US Patent Issued to NTT on June 23 for "Communication system, transmitter, receiver and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,180, issued on June 23, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication system, transmitter, receiver and communication method" was invented by Yukio Toyoshima (Musashino, Japan) and Keita Nishimoto (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signals is input to k (k being an integer 2 or greater) switching units, and is output to one of n (n being an integer of 2 or greater) output ports. The nxk splitter units each corresponding to the respective output ports of the respective switching units split the signals having been output from the corresponding output ports into nk-1 signals. A plurality of receivers are connected to...