US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on Aug. 5 for "Optical power supply system, optical power supply method and power receiving optical communication apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,633, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical power supply system, optical power supply method and power receiving optical communication apparatus" was invented by Ryo Miyatake (Musashino, Japan), Hiroaki Katsurai (Musashino, Japan) and Tomoaki Yoshida (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical power supply system comprising: a power supply optical communication device that supplies power using an optical signal for power supply; and a power reception optical communication device that is driven by power obtained from the optical signal for power supply transmitted from t...