ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,964, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LASER INSTITUTE OF SHANDONG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Shandong, China).

"Distributed acoustic sensing voice message recognition system and method" was invented by Chen Wang (Shandong, China), Ying Shang (Shandong, China), Shuai Qu (Shandong, China), Jian Yang (Shandong, China), Sheng Huang (Shandong, China), Chang Li (Shandong, China), Bing Cao (Shandong, China), Weitao Wang (Shandong, China) and Jiasheng Ni (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a distributed acoustic sensing voice message recognition system and method. The system includes a sensing optical fiber, ...