US Patent Issued to NEC on June 30 for "Audio based wooden utility pole decay detection based on distributed acoustic sensing and machine learning" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,402, issued on June 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Audio based wooden utility pole decay detection based on distributed acoustic sensing and machine learning" was invented by Yangmin Ding (East Brunswick, N.J.), Yue Tian (Princeton, N.J.), Sarper Ozharar (Princeton, N.J.) and Ting Wang (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS)/distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems, methods, and structures that employ machine learning and provide for the automatic remote inspection and condition evaluation of wooden utility poles. Operationally, au...