ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,949, issued on July 21, was assigned to Bestone (Zhejiang) Safety Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou City, China).

"Cable structure with information transmission and risk early warning functions and method of using same" was invented by Hong Miao (Hangzhou City, China), Junhuo Hong (Hangzhou City, China), Rongrong Dai (Hangzhou City, China), Chenchao Hong (Hangzhou City, China), Yijia Zhang (Hangzhou City, China) and Wentao Miao (Hangzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a cable structure with information transmission and risk early warning functions and a method of using the same. An optical fibe...