US Patent Issued to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY on Aug. 25 for "High-resolution sediment dynamics, water depth, and water velocity sensing system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,787, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, N.C.).

"High-resolution sediment dynamics, water depth, and water velocity sensing system" was invented by Chadi Sayde (Raleigh, N.C.), Celso Castro-Bolinaga (Raleigh, N.C.), Rebecca Hillman (Raleigh, N.C.) and Mahmoud Shehata (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to high-resolution sediment sensing including, e.g., water depth and/or water velocity sensing. In one example, a sediment dynamics monitoring system for scour, erosion or deposition detection includes a fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing ...