The Edison Patent Awards, presented annually by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for more than 40 years, recognize the state’s top inventors and their patented innovations, named in honor of Thomas Alva Edison. New Brunswick Winners are evaluated on the significance of the problem addressed, utility, novelty, and commercial impact. NEC Laboratories America has received an Edison Patent Award for its optical networking and sensing research conducted at its Princeton, New Jersey facility. Read our latest collaborations with Edison Patent Awards.
NEC Laboratories America will receive a 2026 Edison Patent Award for a patent that lets optical fiber carry both data communications and distributed sensing at once, reducing interference through counter-propagation and standard WDM filtering, validated across long distances of field fiber.