US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 4 for "Communication control system, communication control apparatus, and communication control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,721, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication control system, communication control apparatus, and communication control method" was invented by Koya Takata (Tokyo), Atsushi Kamoi (Tokyo), Hisashi Mizumoto (Tokyo) and Masaki Aizono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control system includes at least one processor executing: a main communication process of carrying out communication with one or more targets through an optical fiber line; a specifying process of specifying, from among the one or more targets, a free-space optical communication target based on communication statuses in the mai...