US Patent Issued to NEC on June 30 for "Joint communication and sensing for fallen tree localization on overhead lines" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,370, issued on June 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Joint communication and sensing for fallen tree localization on overhead lines" was invented by Yangmin Ding (East Brunswick, N.J.), Zhuocheng Jiang (Plainsboro, N.J.), Sarper Ozharar (Pennington, N.J.), Yue Tian (Princeton, N.J.) and Ting Wang (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In sharp contrast to the prior art, a fallen tree detection and localization method based on distributed fiber optical sensing (DFOS) technique and physics informed machine learning is described in which DFOS leverages existing fiber cables that are conventionally installed on the bot...