US Patent Issued to NEC on July 1 for "Fiber identification without cut point using distributed fiber optic sensing" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,554, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fiber identification without cut point using distributed fiber optic sensing" was invented by Ming-Fang Huang (Princeton, N.J.), Philip Ji (Cranbury, N.J.), Shaobo Han (Princeton, N.J.) and Ting Wang (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and structures for efficiently identifying individual fibers located in a deployed cable that advantageously reduces laborious field efforts while reducing service outage time. The systems and methods locate a targeted fiber in a cable ("Cable ID") and then identify the targeted fiber ("Fiber ID") by detecting DF...