US Patent Issued to NEC on June 16 for "Distributed fiber optic sensor placement procedure for multi-channel sensors" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,154, issued on June 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distributed fiber optic sensor placement procedure for multi-channel sensors" was invented by Philip Ji (Cranbury, N.J.), Ting Wang (West Windsor, N.J.) and Zilong Ye (La Verne, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a DFOS placement procedure for multi-channel sensors we call "modified Explore aNd Pick" (mEnP) procedure, which helps network carriers deploy new types of DFOS sensors (e.g., each DFOS sensor is associated with multiple sensing fiber routes/channels) to cover/sense entire network infrastructures with a minimum number of DFOS sensors while advantageo...