US Patent Issued to LineVision on March 3 for "Transmission line monitoring using an optical blowout anemometer" (Kentucky, Indiana, New York, Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,206, issued on March 3, was assigned to LineVision Inc. (Boston).

"Transmission line monitoring using an optical blowout anemometer" was invented by Josef Spalenka (Louisville, Ky.), Rachael Grudt (San Jose, Calif.), Taylor Mandelbaum (Nyack, N.Y.), Elliott Gould (Somerville, Mass.) and Nathan Pinney (New Albany, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for estimating wind speeds around transmission lines. The method comprises constructing statistical correlations between measured conductor blowout and wind speeds for spans of the transmission lines, generating local wind speed scaling coefficients, and using the wind ...