ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,929, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Dynamic line rating (DLR) of overhead transmission lines" was invented by Yangmin Ding (East Brunswick, N.J.), Ting 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: "Systems, methods, and structures providing dynamic line rating (DLR) for overhead transmission lines based on distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS)/distributed temperature sensing (DTS) to determine temperature of the electrical conductors. Environmental conditions such as wind speed, wind direction, and solar radiation data, are collected ...