US Patent Issued to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Red palm weevil detection by applying machine learning to signals detected with fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,272, issued on March 25, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Red palm weevil detection by applying machine learning to signals detected with fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing" was invented by Islam Ashry (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Boon Siew Ooi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Yuan Mao (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system for detecting a red palm weevil (RPW) includes an optical fiber configured to be wrapped around a tree and a DAS box connected to the optical fiber. The DAS box includes a processing unit th...