US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Position evaluation apparatus, position evaluation method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,353, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Position evaluation apparatus, position evaluation method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Wataru Kohno (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Hino (Tokyo), Sakiko Mishima (Tokyo) and Takashi Matsushita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes memory and processor configured to: input, from a sensor, a signal indicating a characteristic vibration occurring at each position of an optical fiber, and estimate, based on the input signal, an aerial section in which the optical fiber being aerially laid over a pole is present; calculate, based on the inp...