US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 17 for "System and method for monitoring fiber optic cables" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,240, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for monitoring fiber optic cables" was invented by Abdullah M. Arjani (Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia), Salman D. Mutairi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Sulaiman A. Alwasel (Unayzah, Saudi Arabia) and Sultan D. Nufaiee (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a fiber optic cable buried under a surface and a smart sensor module coupled to the fiber optic cable. A controller may be coupled to the smart sensor module. The smart sensor module includes a light source coupled to an end of the fiber optic cable a...