US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 8 for "Optical fiber sensing system, optical fiber sensing apparatus, and breakage detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,999, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical fiber sensing system, optical fiber sensing apparatus, and breakage detection method" was invented by Ryoto Itsubo (Tokyo), Koyo Mori (Tokyo) and Naoto Saeki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber sensing system according to the present disclosure includes: an optical fiber cable including an optical fiber and a supporting wire supporting the optical fiber; at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to transmit pulsed light to the optical fiber, also receive an optical signal from the op...