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Patents | Optical Sensing & Solutions

Our patented innovations unite advanced sensing, physical-world AI, and intelligent action. We aim to create safer, more resilient, and more autonomous systems for infrastructure, utilities, transportation, environmental monitoring, public safety, smart cities, and intelligent manufacturing.

Range And Capability Extending Device For Perimeter Intrusion Detection

Patent Number: 12,674,901
Yangmin Ding; Sarper Ozharar; Ting Wang; Yue Tian
July 7, 2026

A Multi-Band Das with Enhanced Snr, Increased Sampling Rate, And Minimized Inter-Location Interference

Patent Number: 12,699,369
Yue-Kai Huang; Junqiang Hu
June 30, 2026

Audio-Based Wooden Utility Pole Decay Detection Based On Distributed Acoustic Sensing And Machine Learning

Patent Number: 12,669,402
Ting Wang; Sarper Ozharar; Yue Tian; Yangmin Ding
June 30, 2026

Joint Communication And Sensing For Fallen Tree Localization On Overhead Lines

Patent Number: 12,669,370
Yue Tian; Yangmin Ding; Ting Wang; Zhuocheng Jiang; Sarper Ozharar
June 30, 2026

Treeeventid A System For Accurate Tree Hazard Detection On Aerial Telecom Cables Using Distributed Fiber Sensing And Novel Infonce-Based Learning

Patent Number: 12,669,352
Sarper Ozharar; Ting Wang; Yanchao Wang; Yangmin Ding; Yue Tian; Zhuocheng Jiang
June 30, 2026

Efficient Method Of Automated Buried Cable Determination For Cable Status Monitoring

Patent Number: 12/618,708
Ming-Fang Huang; Ting Wang; Shaobo Han
May 5, 2026

Rainfall Intensity Estimation Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Patent Number: 12/607,772
Yangmin Ding; Yue Tian; Sarper Ozharar; Ting Wang
April 21, 2026

Fast Optical Cable Identification Using Acoustic Pen

Patent Number: 12,587,276
Ting Wang; Yue-Kai Huang; Junqiang Hu
March 24, 2026

Radio-Controlled Two-Way Acoustic Modem

Patent Number: 12,562,944
Yue Tian; Ting Wang; Yangmin Ding; Sarper Ozharar; Zhuocheng Jiang
February 24, 2026

Multilinear Domain-Specific Domain Generalization

Patent Number: 12,561,841
Shaobo Han
February 24, 2026

Outdoor Application Of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing/Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Patent Number: 12,516,976
Tingfeng Li; Philip Ji; Shaobo Han; Ming-Fang Huang; Yue Tian; Yangmin Ding; Sarper Ozharar; Ting Wang
January 6, 2026

Spatially Multiplexed Acoustic Modem

Patent Number: 12,489,661
Sarper Ozharar; Ting Wang
December 2, 2025

Laser Frequency Drift Compensation In Forward Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Patent Number: 12,480,808
Yue-Kai Huang; Junqiang Hu
November 25, 2025

Low-Cost High Precision Barometric Pressure Measurement System

Patent Number: 12,460,928
Ting Wang; Yangmin Ding; Yue Tian; Sarper Ozharar
November 4, 2025

Gunshot Detection Via Classification Using Deep Learning And Fiber Sensing Technologies

Patent Number: 12,460,963
Ming-Fang Huang; Shaobo Han; Jian Fang
November 4, 2025

System To Measure Coil Locations And Lengths On Aerial Fiber Cables By Distributed Fiber Sensing For Decision Making

Patent Number: 12,436,003
Zhuocheng Jiang; Yue Tian; Sarper Ozharar; Yangmin Ding; Shaobo Han; Ting Wang; Yuanda (Eric) Xu; Jiatong (Jennifer) Li
October 7, 2025

Computer Vision-Based Wide-Area Snow/Water Level Estimation Using Disparity Map

Patent Number: 12,430,780
Sarper Ozharar; Yue Tian; Ting Wang; Zhuocheng Jiang; Yangmin Ding
September 30, 2025

Flexible And Rapid Deployable Field Monitoring System

Patent Number: 12,429,614
Christopher A White; Philip Ji; Ting Wang
September 30, 2025

Colorless Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing/Distributed Vibration Sensing

Patent Number: 12,405,156
Jian Fang; Yaowen Li; Philip Ji; Shuji Murakami; Ting Wang
September 2, 2025

Telecom Cable Tension Screening Technique Based On Wave Propagation And Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Patent Number: 12,405,135
Yangmin Ding; Ting Wang; Sarper Ozharar; Yue Tian
September 2, 2025

Snow/Water Level Detection With Distributed Acoustic Sensing Integrated Ultrasonic Device

Patent Number: 12,399,056
Yue Tian; Ting Wang; Yangmin Ding; Sarper Ozharar
August 26, 2025

Underground Cable Localization By Fast Time Series Template Matching

Patent Number: 12,399,039
Ming-Fang Huang; Ting Wang; Yuheng Chen; Shaobo Han; Sheng Zhong
August 26, 2025

Utility Pole Localization By Distributed Fiber Sensing Of Aerial Fiber Cable

Patent Number: 12,372,679
You Lu; Shaobo Han; Yue Tian; Sarper Ozharar; Yangmin Ding
July 29, 2025

Few-Mode Rayleigh-Based Distributed Fiber Sensor For Simultaneous Temperature And Strain Sensing

Patent Number: 12,345,585
Ting Wang; Jian Fang
July 1, 2025

Fiber Identification Without Cut Point Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 12,345,554
Philip Ji; Shaobo Han; Ming-Fang Huang; Ting Wang
July 1, 2025

Road Surface Conditions Detection By Distributed Optic Fiber System

Patent Number: 12,345,567
Jingnan Zhao; Yuheng Chen; Ming-Fang Huang; Ting Wang
July 1, 2025

Time Synchronization Method With Trusted Beacons And Distributed Fiber Sensing

Patent Number: 12,289,132
Jian Fang; Ting Wang; Sarper Ozharar; Christopher A White
April 29, 2025

Physimetric-Based Data Security For Coded Distributed Temperature Sensing

Patent Number: 12,256,002
Ting Wang; Jian Fang; Yaowen Li; Qiang Wang; Junqiang Hu
March 18, 2025

Learning Ordinal Representations For Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Object Localization

Patent Number: 12,205,357
Tingfeng Li; Renqiang Min; Shaobo Han
January 21, 2025

Anti-Spoofing 3D Face Reconstruction Using Infrared Structure Light

Patent Number: 12,198,361
Shengtao Sun; Ting Wang; Yue Tian
January 14, 2025

High Dynamic Range Distributed Temperature Sensing (Dts) Using Photon Counting Detection

Patent Number: 12,130,189
Yaowen Li; Qiang Wang
October 29, 2024
October 1, 2024

Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (Dfos) Over Telecom Network

Patent Number: 12,106,664
Yue Tian; Ting Wang; Sarper Ozharar; Yangmin Ding
October 1, 2024

Reduced Complexity Polarization Combining Method for Coherent DAS

Patent Number: 12,078,526
Junqiang Hu
September 3, 2024

Fiber Sensing Using Supervisory Path of Submarine Cables

Patent Number: 12,078,528
Shaobo Han; Yuheng Chen; Ting Wang; Ming-Fang Huang; Milad Salemi
September 3, 2024

Towards Zero Field Work Conflict-Combining Machine Learning with Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 12,072,233
Ting Wang; Yuanda (Eric) Xu; Yangmin Ding; Yue Tian; Sarper Ozharar
August 27, 2024

Joint Wavelet Denoising for Distributed Temperature Sensing

Patent Number: 12,072,244
Jian Fang; Ting Wang
August 27, 2024

Dfos Self-Anomaly Detection System For Safer Infrastructures

Patent Number: 12,051,309
Ming-Fang Huang; Ting Wang
July 30, 2024

Road Traffic Extraction For Unknown Anomaly Detection Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 12,051,326
Ming-Fang Huang; Philip Ji; Yuheng Chen; Milad Salemi; Shaobo Han
July 30, 2024

Distributed Intelligent Snap Informatics

Patent Number: 12,038,320
Yuheng Chen; Shaobo Han; Tingfeng Li; Ming-Fang Huang
July 16, 2024

Two-Stage Processing Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (Dfos) Interrogator for Acoustic-Modulated Signals

Patent Number: 12,025,488
Ting Wang; Junqiang Hu
July 2, 2024

Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor Placement

Patent Number: 12,028,110
Zilong Ye; Ting Wang; Philip Ji
July 2, 2024

Machine Learning Based Regression Of Complex Coefficients Of A Linear Combination Of Spatial Modes From A Multimode Optical Fiber

Patent Number: 12,007,579
Philip Ji; Eric Cosatto; Giovanni Milione
June 11, 2024

Perpendicular Distance Prediction Of Vibrations By Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 12,000,729
Milad Salemi; Yuheng Chen; Shaobo Han; Ming-Fang Huang
June 4, 2024

Vibration Detection Using Phase Recovered From An Optical Transponder With Coherent Detection

Patent Number: 11,982,552
Ezra Ip; Yue-Kai Huang
May 14, 2024

Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor Placement Procedure

Patent Number: 11,971,294
Philip Ji; Ting Wang; Zilong Ye
April 30, 2024

Laser Noise Reduction For Laser Interferometry

Patent Number: 11,960,042
Ezra Ip; Fatih Yaman; Yue-Kai Huang
April 16, 2024

Estimating Core-Cladding Concentricity Error in Optical Fibers Using Guided Acoustic-Wave Brillouin Scattering

Patent Number: 11,933,605
Fatih Yaman; Eduardo Mateo Rodriguez; Shinsuke Fujisawa; Takanori Inoue; Hussam Batshon; Kohei Nakamura; Yoshihisa Inada
March 19, 2024

Repeater Design For Distributed Acoustic Sensing On Multispan Fiber Links

Patent Number: 11,920,975
Ezra Ip; Fatih Yaman; Shinsuke Fujisawa; Yue-Kai Huang
March 5, 2024

Smart Stadium Applications Using Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,885,670
Ting Wang; Ming-Fang Huang
January 30, 2024

Integrated 3-Way Branching Unit Switch Module Having Small Foot Print

Patent Number: 11,888,583
Shinsuke Fujisawa; Ryuji Aida; Fatih Yaman; Takigawa Yoshinari; Eduardo Fabian Mateo Rodriguez; Hussam Batshon; Yoshihisa Inada; Takanori Inoue
January 30, 2024

Dynamic Anomaly Localization Of Utility Pole Wires

Patent Number: 11,881,688
Yangmin Ding; Ting Wang; Yuanda (Eric) Xu; Sarper Ozharar; Yue Tian
January 23, 2024

Utility Pole Integrity Assessment System By Distributed Acoustic Sensing And Machine Learning

Patent Number: 11,846,569
Yue Tian; Sarper Ozharar; Ting Wang; Yangmin Ding; Shaobo Han
December 19, 2023

Method For Reducing Gawbs Noise By Reducing Polarization Diffusion Length

Patent Number: 11,782,217
Kohei Nakamura; Yoshihisa Inada; Eduardo Mateo Rodriguez; Takanori Inoue; Hussam Batshon; Shinsuke Fujisawa; Fatih Yaman
October 10, 2023

Traffic Monitoring Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,783,452
Eric Cosatto; Philip Ji; Ting Wang
October 10, 2023

Distribution Transformer Localization And Monitoring Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,754,612
Yue Tian; Sarper Ozharar; Yangmin Ding; Ting Wang
September 12, 2023

Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor Placement

Patent Number: 11,742,939
Philip Ji; Zilong Ye; Ting Wang
August 29, 2023

Active Microphone For Increased Das Acoustic Sensing Capability

Patent Number: 11,736,867
Junqiang Hu; Ting Wang
August 22, 2023

Context Encoder-Based Fiber Sensing Anomaly Detection

Patent Number: 11,733,089
Shaobo Han; Eric Cosatto; Ming-Fang Huang
August 22, 2023

Spatial Averaging Method For Coherent Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,733,088
Yue-Kai Huang; Junqiang Hu; Ezra Ip
August 22, 2023

Street Light Operating Status Monitoring Using Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing

Patent Number: 11,733,070
Yangmin Ding; Yuanda (Eric) Xu; Sarper Ozharar; Yue Tian; Ting Wang
August 22, 2023

Three-way branching unit switch module having a small footprint

Patent Number: 11,700,067
Ryuji Aida; Shinsuke Fujisawa; Fatih Yaman; Yoshihisa Inada; Eduardo Mateo Rodriguez; Hussam Batshon; Takigawa Yoshinari; Takanori Inoue; Kohei Nakamura; Kurahashi Ryu
July 11, 2023

Contrastive Learning of Utility Pole Representations from Distributed Acoustic Sensing Signals

Patent Number: 11,698,290
Yue Tian; Shaobo Han; Ting Wang; Sarper Ozharar; Yangmin Ding
July 11, 2023

Method Providing Increased Signal-to-Noise (SNR) for Coherent Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,698,289
Shuji Murakami; Ting Wang; Junqiang Hu
July 11, 2023

Polarization Diversity Combining Method in Coherent DAS Maintaining Phase Continuity

Patent Number: 11,692,867
Yue-Kai Huang; Junqiang Hu; Ezra Ip
July 04, 2023

Hybrid Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,686,602
Ming-Fang Huang; Yoshiaki Aono; Glenn Wellbrock; Tiejun Xia; Ting Wang
June 27, 2023

Smart Refrigeration Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,686,628
Ting Wang; Ming-Fang Huang
June 27, 2023

Utility Pole Localization Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,686,909
Yue Tian
June 27, 2023

Sparse Excitation Method For 3-Dimensional Underground Cable Localization By Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,681,042
Ming-Fang Huang; Ting Wang; Hansi Liu
June 20, 2023

Continuous Utility Pole Monitoring Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,680,849
Ting Wang; Yangmin Ding; Yue Tian; Sarper Ozharar
June 20, 2023

Concurrent Sensing Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor Placement

Patent Number: 11,677,470
Philip Ji; Ting Wang; Zilong Ye
June 13, 2023

Saturation Caused Phase Jump Avoidance In Das

Patent Number: 11,674,827
Junqiang Hu
June 13, 2023

Suppressed out-of-band level for increasing loss margin and stable ABC operation of coded DFOS system

Patent Number: 11,664,893
Yue-Kai Huang; Junqiang Hu
May 30, 2023

Indoor Disaster Localization via Hybrid Ethernet/Optical Fiber Cable

Patent Number: 11,652,552
Ting Wang; Ming-Fang Huang
May 16, 2023

Optical Fiber Degradation Monitoring by Distributed Temperature Sensing

Patent Number: 11,644,369
Yaowen Li; Ming-Fang Huang
May 9, 2023

Underground Optical Fiber Cable Localization

Patent Number: 11,619,523
Ming-Fang Huang; Hansi Liu; Ting Wang
April 4, 2023

Distributed Acoustic Sensing Based Natural Frequency Measurement Of Civil Infrastructures

Patent Number: 11,619,542
Yue Tian; Yangmin Ding; Sarper Ozharar; Ting Wang
April 4, 2023

Vehicle Speed, Direction And Size Measurement Using Temporal Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,619,541
Ting Wang; Sarper Ozharar
April 4, 2023

Rayleigh Fading Mitigation Via Short Pulse Coherent Distributed Acoustic Sensing With Multi-Location Beatingterm Combination

Patent Number: 11,566,937
Junqiang Hu; Shuji Murakami; Ezra Ip; Yue-Kai Huang
January 31, 2023

Multiple Lane Real-Time Traffic Monitor and Vehicle Analysis Using Distributed Fiber Sensing

Patent Number: 11,562,646
Ting Wang; Yuheng Chen; Jingnan Zhao; Ming-Fang Huang
January 24, 2023

Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing Using Point Sensors

Patent Number: 11,543,285
Ting Wang; Junqiang Hu
January 3, 2023

Distributed Acoustic Sensing Using Multi-Band Time-Gated Digital Orthogonal Frequency Domain Reflectometry

Patent Number: 11,543,287
Ezra Ip; Yue-Kai Huang
January 3, 2023

Distributed Acoustic Sensing Based Acoustic Wave Speed Scanning And Mapping Of Civil Infrastructures

Patent Number: 11,543,286
Ting Wang; Sarper Ozharar; Yue Tian; Yangmin Ding
January 3, 2023

Estimating Mode Field Distribution in Optical Fibers From Guided Acoustic-Wave Brillouin Scattering

Patent Number: 11,467,061
Kohei Nakamura; Eduardo Mateo Rodriguez; Fatih Yaman; Takanori Inoue; Takaaki Ogata; Shinsuke Fujisawa; Hussam Batshon; Yoshihisa Inada
October 11, 2022

Rapid temperature measurement method by wavelength modulation spectroscopy

Patent Number: 11,467,037
Da Pan; Yue Tian
October 11, 2022

Distributed Intelligent Traffic Informatics Using Fiber Sensing

Patent Number: 11,468,667
Ming-Fang Huang; Milad Salemi
October 11, 2022

Physical Layer Security in Network Sensing Architecture

Patent Number: 11,470,117
Ting Wang; Ming-Fang Huang
October 11, 2022

Neural Network Transfer Learning for Quality of Transmission Prediction

Patent Number: 11,461,635
Weiyang Mo; Ezra Ip; Shaoliang Zhang; Yue-Kai Huang
October 4, 2022

Bidirectional fiber communication and sensing WDM architecture using same fiber transmission band

Patent Number: 11,463,171
Ezra Ip; Yue-Kai Huang; Ming-Fang Huang; Philip Ji
October 4, 2022

Aerial fiber optic cable localization by distributed acoustic sensing

Patent Number: 11,428,570
Yue Tian
August 30, 2022

Wind Speed Measurement Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,422,146
Ting Wang; Ming-Fang Huang
August 23, 2022

Optical Fiber Sensing Systems, Methods, Structures, And Application

Patent Number: 11,391,622
Junqiang Hu; Philip Ji; Yaowen Li; Ezra Ip; Shuji Murakami; Yue-Kai Huang
July 19, 2022

Distributed Sensing Over Switched Optical Fiber Networks

Patent Number: 11,387,898
Ting Wang; Philip Ji; Ming-Fang Huang; Yaowen Li
July 12, 2022

Efficient Transfer Of Sensor Data On Dynamic Software Defined Network (Sdn) Controlled Optical Network

Patent Number: 11,387,926
Ting Wang; Junqiang Hu; Shailendra Gaikwad
July 12, 2022

Improving Performance Of Rayleigh-Based Phase-Otdr With Correlation-Based Diversity Combining And Bias Removal Cross

Patent Number: 11,378,443
Yue-Kai Huang; Ezra Ip
July 5, 2022

Smart Cable Positioning/Location Using Optical Fiber Sensing

Patent Number: 11,366,231
Ting Wang; Ming-Fang Huang; Yuheng Chen
June 21, 2022

Multi-Frequency Coherent Distributed Acoustic Sensing (Das) With Single Transmitter / Receiver Pair Using Offset Tx / Rx Frequency Framing Scheme

Patent Number: 11,320,304
Yue-Kai Huang; Ezra Ip
May 3, 2022

Constant Amplitude Coded DFOS Using Out-of-Band Signaling

Patent Number: 11,296,786
Yue-Kai Huang; Ezra Ip; Fatih Yaman
April 5, 2022

Network Sensing Topologies For Fiber Optic Sensing

Patent Number: 11,284,173
Ming-Fang Huang; Ting Wang
March 22, 2022

Single-Step Nonlinearity Compensation Using Artificial Intelligence For Digital Coherent Transmission Systems

Patent Number: 11,270,200
Shaoliang Zhang; Takanori Inoue; Eduardo Mateo Rodriguez; Yoshihisa Inada; Ting Wang; Fatih Yaman; Kohei Nakamura
March 8, 2022

Single Mode Fiber Distributed Temperature Sensing With Improved Noise Characteristics

Patent Number: 11,204,286
Yaowen Li; Ming-Fang Huang; Philip Ji; Ting Wang; Shuji Murakami
December 21, 2021

Amplifier Dynamics Compensation For Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry

Patent Number: 11,193,801
Yue-Kai Huang; Ezra Ip
December 7, 2021

High Speed Frequency Hopping Das Interrogation Using Aom-Gated Re-Circulating Loop And Frequency-Shifted Receiver Lo

Patent Number: 11,159,200
Ezra Ip; Giovanni Milione; Yue-Kai Huang; Fatih Yaman
October 26, 2021

Implementation: For Ir 18073 – Optical Network Performance Evaluation Using A Hybrid Neural Network

Patent Number: 11,133,865
Jiakai Yu; Ezra Ip; Yue-Kai Huang; Shaoliang Zhang
September 28, 2021

Time-Space De-Noising For Distributed Sensors

Patent Number: 11,132,542
Shuji Murakami; Ting Wang; Giovanni Milione; Philip Ji
September 28, 2021

Two Stage Detection Method For Distributed Vibration Detection

Patent Number: 11,131,578
Junqiang Hu; Ting Wang
September 28, 2021

Systems And Methods For Identifying Locations Of Deployed Fiber Cables Based On Vibrations

Patent Number: 11,060,950
Ting Wang; Ming-Fang Huang; Glenn Wellbrock; Tiejun Xia
July 13, 2021

Uni-Directional Signal Transmit Method Using Distributed Fiber Sensing

Patent Number: 11,054,303
Junqiang Hu; Ting Wang
July 6, 2021

Multicore Fiber Amplifier With High Power Efficiency

Patent Number: 11,043,786
Yoshihisa Inada; Takanori Inoue; Shaoliang Zhang; Kohei Nakamura; Fatih Yaman; Eduardo Mateo Rodriguez
June 22, 2021

Distributed Sensing Over Optical Fiber Carrying Live, High-Speed Data

Patent Number: 10,931,366
Yaowen Li; Tiejun Xia; Philip Ji; Glenn Wellbrock; Ming-Fang Huang; Ting Wang
February 23, 2021

Optical Fiber Sensing Systems, Methods, Structures And Applications

Patent Number: 10,917,168
Ming-Fang Huang; Yue-Kai Huang; Ting Wang; Ezra Ip
February 9, 2021

G-Osnr Estimation On Dynamic Ps-Qam Channels Using Hybrid Neural Network

Patent Number: 10,887,009
Ezra Ip; Yue-Kai Huang; Jiakai Yu; Shaoliang Zhang
January 5, 2021

High-Density Submarine Roadm Unit With Remote Wss Redundancy

Patent Number: 10,855,392
Eduardo Mateo Rodriguez; Takehiro Nakano; Ryuji Aida
December 1, 2020