ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,990, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Utility pole hazardous event localization" was invented by Yangmin Ding (East Brunswick, N.J.), Yuanda Xu (Jersey City, 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: "Distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems and methods for performing utility pole hazardous event localization that advantageously identify a utility pole that has undergone a hazardous event such as being struck by an automobile or other detectable impact. Systems and methods according to...