ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,610, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Device and method for estimating characteristics of optical fiber transmission line" was invented by Motohiko Eto (Kawasaki, Japan), Kazuyuki Tajima (Yokosuka, Japan), Setsuo Yoshida (Inagi, Japan) and Shoichiro Oda (Fuchu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A characteristics estimation device estimates characteristics of an optical fiber transmission line in an optical transmission system in which an optical signal is transmitted from first node to second node via the optical fiber transmission line. The characteristics estimation device includes a processor. T...