US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on March 3 for "Relay system, transmission device, reception device, and switching method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,996, issued on March 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Relay system, transmission device, reception device, and switching method" was invented by Daisuke Umeda (Osaka, Japan) and Yasuhiro Takizawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay system includes a transmission device and a reception device. The transmission device includes: a first optical transmitter that converts a first signal to a first optical signal having a transmission speed equal to that of the first signal, and transmits the first optical signal; a data separator that converts the first signal to a plurality of low-rat...