US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 7 for "Free-space optical communication control system, free-space optical communication control apparatus, and free-space optical communication control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,612, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Free-space optical communication control system, free-space optical communication control apparatus, and free-space optical 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 free-space optical communication control system includes at least one processor. The at least one processor carries out: a first detection process of detecting a change in a connection relationship between a first free-space optical communication apparatus and a second free-space optic...