ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,614, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Flexible and rapid deployable field monitoring system" was invented by Philip Ji (Cranbury, N.J.), Christopher White (Neshanic Station, N.J.) and Ting Wang (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible, rapid deployable perimeter monitoring system and method that employs distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) technologies and includes a deployment/operations field vehicle including an interrogator and analyzer/processor. The deployment/operations field vehicle is configured to field deploy a ruggedized fiber optic sensor cable in an arrangement that meets a...