US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 20 for "Optical communication path opening method and management control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,974, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Optical communication path opening method and management control apparatus" was invented by Shin Kaneko (Musashino, Japan), Naotaka Shibata (Musashino, Japan), Takuya Kanai (Musashino, Japan) and Junichi Kani (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for opening an optical communication path, in which one or more optical switches include a plurality of first ports and a plurality of second ports, and a management control device switches connection such that other first ports grouped with a transmission port connected first port of the one or more o...