ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,141, issued on July 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical fiber sensing system, host sensing device, remote sensing device, sensing method, and sensing device control method" was invented by Yukihide Yoda (Tokyo), Koyo Mori (Tokyo) and Tadayuki Iwano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The optical fiber sensing system includes: a host sensing device including a first optical sensor for receiving, from a first optical fiber, first light corresponding to first pulse light input into the first optical fiber and first signal light and outputting first data for the first optical fiber corresponding to the first light and secon...