US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Jan. 27 for "Relay system, communication device, and delay period determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,598, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Relay system, communication device, and delay period determination method" was invented by Yasuhiro Takizawa (Osaka, Japan) and Takaaki Taguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay system includes a first and a second communication device at least one of which includes an estimating unit that acquires, based on a dispersion compensation amount acquired by an optical transceiver, an estimated value of a transmission delay period, the transmission delay period being a period during which an optical signal is transmitted through an...