US Patent Issued to Network Integrity Systems on Dec. 2 for "Security monitoring of an asset using distributed acoustic sensing with selected gauge lengths" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,663, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Network Integrity Systems Inc. (Hickory, N.C.).

"Security monitoring of an asset using distributed acoustic sensing with selected gauge lengths" was invented by Cary R Murphy (Hickory, N.C.), Mark K. Bridges (Hickory, N.C.) and Dave E. Cunningham (Conover, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asset such as a data transmission system, a perimeter security system, an oil well or a pipe line is monitored for events which are potentially damaging or threatening to the asset by installing an optical fiber continuously through the asset. The asset has many different zones of different physical condit...