US Patent Issued to NEC on May 13 for "Optical fiber sensing system, measuring device, and measuring method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,177, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical fiber sensing system, measuring device, and measuring method" was invented by Yutaka Yano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber sensing system is acquired by adding an optical fiber sensing function to an optical communication cable system, and the optical fiber sensing is performed by an interrogator by sending probe light to an optical fiber, detecting backscattered light of the probe light, and performing sensing on environmental information around the optical fiber. A first sensing device installed at a remote place different from a terminal stati...