US Patent Issued to Network Integrity Systems on July 15 for "Monitoring optical fibers using two dissimilar algorithms on a single monitoring system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,964, issued on July 15, was assigned to Network Integrity Systems Inc. (Hickory, N.C.).

"Monitoring optical fibers using two dissimilar algorithms on a single monitoring system" was invented by Cary R. Murphy (Hickory, N.C.), Daniel M. Goertzen (Winnipeg, Canada) and Mark K. Bridges (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for monitoring optical cable for disturbance events by providing dual monitoring systems where optical signals are received from at least one optical fiber of the cable which are modified by disturbance events. Two separate and distinct algorithms are applied to the received optical signal...