ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,980, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical transceiver, optical communication system, optical transmission apparatus, optical transceiver setting method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Masaki Oe (Tokyo) and Rintaro Nomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wavelength variable optical transmitting unit is configured to be able to transmit a first channel setting optical signal including first channel information indicating a channel for the first channel setting optical signal. A wavelength variable optical receiving unit is configured to, when the optical transceiver receives a second ch...