ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,749, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Spatial sensing device, spatial sensing system, and spatial sensing method" was invented by Tadayuki Iwano (Tokyo) and Yoshiaki Aono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a spatial sensing device, and the like, that are suitable for spatial sensing. This spatial sensing device (3) comprises a sensing data acquisition means (11) for acquiring sensing data through optical fiber sensing using a plurality of optical fiber cables (1) laid in different directions and an object detection means (12) for using the sensing data to detect the position of an object in a spa...