US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Sept. 29 for "System and method for detecting fire event in underground utility tunnels based on acoustics" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,980, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"System and method for detecting fire event in underground utility tunnels based on acoustics" was invented by Byung Jin Lee (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a system and a method for detecting fire event in underground utility tunnels based on acoustics. The system is for early detection of fire situations in an underground facility based on sound. The system includes a sound acquisition device that is installed in the underground facility and collects acoustic signals in real tim...