US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Sept. 15 for "Optical fiber-based tsunami warning system using submarine telecommunication cables" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,375, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Optical fiber-based tsunami warning system using submarine telecommunication cables" was invented by Zhongwen Zhan (Arcadia, Calif.) and Valey Kamalov (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes a tsunami warning system utilizing properties of light in optical fibers within submarine telecommunication cables. Enhanced by microwave frequency modulation and High-Loss Loop Back (HLLB) techniques, this system measures photoelastic changes for more stable, long-period tsunami wave detection."

The patent was file...