US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 28 for "Transmission direction determination apparatus, transmission direction determination method, recording medium, and transmission direction determination module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,036, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transmission direction determination apparatus, transmission direction determination method, recording medium, and transmission direction determination module" was invented by Yusuke Shimomura (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Takeshita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission direction determination apparatus includes: a first lens configured to collimate light propagating from one multi-core fiber of two multi-core fibers to the other multi-core fiber of the two multi-core fibers; a second lens configured to focus the light that has propagated from the first lens; a partiall...