US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 7 for "Switching device and switching method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,611, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Switching device and switching method" was invented by Yohei Hasegawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching device includes an optical communication unit configured to receive an optical communication signal; and a control unit configured to switch a path for the optical communication unit to receive an optical communication signal based on at least one of reception power of the optical communication signal received by the optical communication unit, an error rate of a synchronous signal therefor, an error rate after signal demodulation thereof, an error rate after...