ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,192, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system, computing machine, communication method and program" was invented by Toru Mano (Musashino, Japan), Junki Ichikawa (Musashino, Japan), Yukio Tsukishima (Musashino, Japan), Kenji Shimizu (Musashino, Japan), Hideki Nishizawa (Musashino, Japan), Tomoya Hibi (Musashino, Japan) and Kiwami Inoue (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This communication system comprises a plurality of computers 1, 2 that each comprise: an optical transport path control unit 14 that adjusts the number of optical transport paths between the co...