US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 14 for "Branching device, optical submarine cable system, and power supply method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,937, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Branching device, optical submarine cable system, and power supply method" was invented by Shohei Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A branching device to be used for branching a power supply path connecting a first trunk station and a second trunk station to a branch station, the branching device including: a first power reception port being connected with a first power supply path connected to the first trunk station; a second power reception port being connected with a second power supply path connected to the second trunk station; a third power reception por...