ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,048, issued on Sept. 9.

"Method for locating abnormal temperature event of distributed optical fiber" was invented by Honghui Wang (Chengdu, China), Xiang Wang (Chengdu, China), Guangle Yao (Chengdu, China), Peng Peng (Chengdu, China), Jianbo Yang (Chengdu, China) and Xianguo Tuo (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of locating a temperature anomalies of a distributed optical fiber includes the steps of: (a) generating a training dataset having training samples; (b) setting labels for training samples; (c) building a convolutional neural network composed of multi-layer convolutional networks and a fully connected ...