US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Sept. 2 for "Input/output switch and communication system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,628, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Input/output switch and communication system" was invented by Manabu Yoshino (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present invention provides an input/output switch including: a plurality of virtual switches formed by asymmetrically divided switches with symmetrically aligned ports; and ports on a side of end points and ports on a side of an intermediate switch allocated for each of the virtual switches, in which some of the ports of the virtual switches on the side of the end points act as ports that form a path that re...