US Patent Issued to NEXANS on Dec. 2 for "Laser scanning of cable and cable accessory components subjected to mechanical loads and elastic or inelastic deformation" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,189, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEXANS (Courbevoie, France).

"Laser scanning of cable and cable accessory components subjected to mechanical loads and elastic or inelastic deformation" was invented by Espen Doedens (Halden, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting deformations of high voltage and/or medium voltage cables and/or cable components, include at a first point of time, capturing and storing (302) a first set of 3-dimensional, 3D, surface geometry measurement data of an area of interest of a surface of the cable or cable component. The method also incudes, at a second point of time, capturing and st...