US Patent Issued to NEC on June 16 for "Liquid leak detection device, liquid leak detection system, and liquid leak detection method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,209, issued on June 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid leak detection device, liquid leak detection system, and liquid leak detection method" was invented by Takahiro Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to detect a liquid leak in a pipe more easily. This liquid leak detection device (2) comprises: a data acquiring means (11) that acquires data based on reflected light from laser light which irradiates a region including a pipe; a pipe model generating means (12) that uses the data and generates a pipe model that is a three-dimensional model of the pipe; a polarization state de...