ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,679, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).
"System for sensing and recognizing acoustic and/or vibrational anomalies associated with a site to be monitored" was invented by Fabio Cirinna' (Rome) and Andrea Giorgio Busa' (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a system for sensing and recognizing acoustic and/or vibrational anomalies. The system comprises: a unit using optical fiber for the distributed acoustic and/or vibrational sensing of at least one acoustic and/or vibrational anomaly and for generating an alarm signal representative of the sensing of such at least one anomaly; one or mo...