US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 20 for "Signal strength flattening method and relay node" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,452, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Signal strength flattening method and relay node" was invented by Ryo Igarashi (Musashino, Japan), Kazutaka Hara (Musashino, Japan), Ryo Koma (Musashino, Japan) and Takahiro Suzuki (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal intensity flattening method includes: classifying a plurality of user devices accommodated in the same relay node so that user devices with similar optical signal intensities are in the same class; and setting a signal transmission path for converging optical signals transmitted from user devices of the same class in the same optical transmi...