ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,002, issued on March 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Physimetric-based data security for coded distributed temperature sensing" was invented by Qiang Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Junqiang Hu (Davis, Calif.), Jian Fang (Princeton, N.J.), Yaowen Li (Princeton, N.J.) and Ting Wang (West Windsor, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Physimetric-based data security for coded distributed temperature sensing (DTS) in which physimetric information is extracted from a coded-DTS interrogator which is unique for each interrogator at each operating run time-and used to reconstruct a final temperature determination from DTS data. The physimetr...