ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,949, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data providing system, data providing apparatus, and data providing method" was invented by Nobutaka Ishii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data providing system (1) according to the present disclosure includes an optical fiber sensing unit (10) that acquires sensing data by executing optical fiber sensing, a processing unit (21) that generates processed data by executing processing on the sensing data, a level giving unit (22) that gives an access level according to a type to individual data included in the sensing data and the processed data, and a data providing un...