US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing, NEC, NEC Laboratories America on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for utilizing machine learning to minimize a potential of damage to fiber optic cables" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,807, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.), NEC Corp. (Tokyo) and NEC Laboratories America Inc. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing machine learning to minimize a potential of damage to fiber optic cables" was invented by Tiejun J. Xia (Richardson, Texas), Glenn A. Wellbrock (Wichita, Kan.), Ming-Fang Huang (Princeton, N.J.), Ting Wang (West Windsor, N.J.) and Yoshiaki Aono (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive, from a fiber sensor device, sensing data associated with a fiber optic cable, the sensing data being produced by an activity...