US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 20 for "Apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for determining vehicle characteristics based on vibrations sensed using optical fiber" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,506, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for determining vehicle characteristics based on vibrations sensed using optical fiber" was invented by Daisuke Ikefuji (Tokyo), Takashi Matsushita (Tokyo), Murtuza Petladwala (Tokyo) and Hemant Shivsagar Prasad (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a travelling vehicle detection apparatus including: a measurement unit that that measures a continuous physical quantity at a predetermined place using an optical fiber sensor laid along a road, a detection unit that detects a temporal change pattern of th...