US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on May 6 for "Optical power supply system, power receiving side optical communication device and data transfer method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,415, issued on May 6, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical power supply system, power receiving side optical communication device and data transfer method" was invented by Kenta Ito (Musashino, Japan), Hiroaki Katsurai (Musashino, Japan) and Tomoaki Yoshida (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply side optical communication apparatus supplies power to a power receiving side optical communication apparatus using an optical signal for power supply, a power storage unit stores the supplied power, a data control unit of the power supply side optical communication apparatus superimp...