US Patent Issued to NEC on April 21 for "Snow / water level detection with distributed acoustic sensing integrated ultrasonic device" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,772, issued on April 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Snow / water level detection with distributed acoustic sensing integrated ultrasonic device" was invented by Yangmin Ding (East Brunswick, N.J.), YueTing Wang (West Windsor, N.J.), Yue Tian (Princeton, N.J.) and Sarper Ozharar (Pennington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing/distributed acoustic sensing (DFOS/DAS) systems, methods, and structures that advantageously provide rainfall intensity measurements along an entire length of a fiber optic sensor. using existing telecommunications optical fiber...