US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Distributed acoustic sensing to identify non-disjoint paths in communications networks" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,799, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Distributed acoustic sensing to identify non-disjoint paths in communications networks" was invented by David M. Curran (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for determining non-disjoint network segments in a fiber optic network. An embodiment transmits, using a signal generator, a signal into a fiber optic network. The embodiment receives, using a receiver, a set of signals comprising at least first and second ones of the set of signals for respecti...