US Patent Issued to NTT on Jan. 13 for "Relay apparatus, optical access system and relay method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,557, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Relay apparatus, optical access system and relay method" was invented by Yumiko Senoo (Musashino, Japan), Kazutaka Hara (Musashino, Japan), Shin Kaneko (Musashino, Japan), Ryo Koma (Musashino, Japan) and Kazuaki Honda (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided a relay device that performs relay among a plurality of optical communication devices that perform communication using at least time division multiplexing, the device including a data length acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a data length of an uplink signal transmitted from the optica...