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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
May. 11, 2023
Applicant:
Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Shaobo Han, Princeton, NJ (US);
Ming-Fang Huang, Princeton, NJ (US);
Ting Wang, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01H 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01H 9/004 (2013.01);
Abstract
A distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) system and method employing a fiber optic sensor cable that autonomously collects DFOS data and employs artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to distinguish sections of the fiber optic sensor cable that are above ground (aerial), below ground (buried), and buried but occasionally above ground, in addition to any change(s) that occur with respect to the fiber optic sensor cable at such sections.