US Patent Issued to NEC on June 30 for "TreeEventID a system for accurate tree hazard detection on aerial telecom cables using distributed fiber sensing and novel InfoNCE-based learning" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,352, issued on June 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"TreeEventID a system for accurate tree hazard detection on aerial telecom cables using distributed fiber sensing and novel InfoNCE-based learning" was invented by Yangmin Ding (East Brunswick, N.J.), Sarper Ozharar (Pennington, N.J.), Zhuocheng Jiang (Plainsboro, 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: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and structures that employ distributed fiber sensing that utilizes existing fiber cables for detecting tree events. Our inventive systems and methods can detect when a tree or other type...