ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,619, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical fiber sensing system, optical fiber sensing method, and optical fiber sensing apparatus" was invented by Tadayuki Iwano (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Aono (Tokyo), Yoshinori Kitahara (Tokyo) and Satoru Ishii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber sensing system according to the present disclosure includes: an optical fiber network (10) configured to detect first sensing information related to a first monitoring target and second sensing information related to a second monitoring target; a reception unit (21) configured to receive an optical signal from the optical ...