US Patent Issued to NEC on April 29 for "Distributed acoustic sensing sensitivity enhancement using MIMO sampling and phase recombination" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,234, issued on April 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distributed acoustic sensing sensitivity enhancement using MIMO sampling and phase recombination" was invented by Yue-Kai Huang (Princeton, N.J.) and Ezra Ip (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS)/distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems, methods, and structures exhibiting a sensitivity enhancement via MIMO sampling and phase recombination."

The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2022, under Application No. 17/964,899.

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