ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,278, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Optical signal controller, optical signal control method, and optical signal transmission system" was invented by Masanori Nakamura (Musashino-shi, Japan), Mitsuteru Yoshida (Musashino-shi, Japan), Etsushi Yamazaki (Musashino-shi, Japan) and Yoshiaki Kisaka (Musashino-shi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the present invention, an optical signal control apparatus controls a compensation coefficient of an equalizer of an optical transmitter including the equalizer of a symbol period interval and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) operating at a s...