ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,923, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AIQ DIENSTLEISTUNGENUG (Boblingen, Germany).

"Electrical state monitoring related to a power cable" was invented by Ralf Albrecht (Boblingen, Germany) and Gareth Lees (Hants, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for obtaining electrical state information related to an electrical power cable comprising at least one current sensor, at least one electrical-mechanical transducer arranged in order to receive a current sensor signal based driving signal and adapted to generate a mechanical response at a response surface based on the driving signal, a distributed acoustic sensin...