US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 14 for "Distributed fiber optic sensing enabled self-coherent detection for data centers" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,681, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distributed fiber optic sensing enabled self-coherent detection for data centers" 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) systems, methods, and structures that advantageously sense/monitor intra-data center operations using self-coherent detection. Advantageously, sensing signal(s) and data signal(s) are optically multiplexed such that the sensing signal(s) are generated and detected using the same optoelectronic components ...