ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,754, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical line terminal, optical communication system, bandwidth allocation method, control circuit, and storage medium" was invented by Takeshi Suehiro (Tokyo), Kenichi Nakura (Tokyo) and Akiko Iwasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical line terminal includes: one or more optical line termination units to which an optical network unit of an optical communication system is connected, the one or more optical line termination units acquiring an allocation requested bandwidth from the optical network unit connected; a slice management unit that man...