ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,839, issued on July 29, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Surveillance control device and optical power supply system" was invented by Tomohiro Kawano (Musashino, Japan), Kunihiro Toge (Musashino, Japan), Chisato Fukai (Musashino, Japan) and Kazunori Katayama (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a monitoring control device and an optical power supply system in which a system capable of remotely controlling many optical power supply type optical nodes can be economically constructed. A monitoring control device according to the present disclosure includes control means f...