US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 7 for "System to measure coil locations and lengths on aerial fiber cables by distributed fiber sensing for decision making" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,003, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"System to measure coil locations and lengths on aerial fiber cables by distributed fiber sensing for decision making" was invented by Yue Tian (Princeton, N.J.), Yangmin Ding (East Brunswick, N.J.), Sarper Ozharar (Pennington, N.J.), Shaobo Han (Princeton, N.J.), Ting Wang (West Windsor, N.J.), Jiatong Li (Piscataway, N.J.), Zhuocheng Jiang (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Yuanda Xu (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS)/distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system and method employing a fiber optic sensor cable that collects vibrational ...