US Patent Issued to NTT on Feb. 17 for "Positioning method of electric pole and estimating method of the state of overhead optical fiber cable" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,769, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Positioning method of electric pole and estimating method of the state of overhead optical fiber cable" was invented by Tatsuya Okamoto (Musashino, Japan), Daisuke Iida (Musashino, Japan), Yusuke Koshikiya (Musashino, Japan) and Nazuki Honda (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for remotely identifying a utility pole position and estimating a state of an overhead optical fiber cable. The method includes identifying a boundary region of a vibration distribution as a utility pole position, from a vibration distribution pattern obtained by measu...