US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 5 for "Optical transmission device, optical transmission system, and optical transmission method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,650, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical transmission device, optical transmission system, and optical transmission method" was invented by Takeshi Kitamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical transmission device includes: a route control unit that outputs user data including destination information to a first channel or a second channel, based on a latency associated with each destination included in the destination information; a first optical transmission unit that treats the user data as first data when the user data are output to the first channel, converts the first data into a first optica...