US Patent Issued to NEC on June 10 for "Vehicle monitoring system, vehicle monitoring method, and vehicle monitoring apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,473, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle monitoring system, vehicle monitoring method, and vehicle monitoring apparatus" was invented by Takashi Konashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle monitoring system according to the present disclosure includes: an optical fiber for sensing (10) laid on a road (40); a vehicle passage detection unit (30) configured to detect that a vehicle (50) has passed a predetermined location on the road (40); an identification unit (202) configured to identify the vehicle (50) that has passed the predetermined location as a vehicle-to-be-monitored; and a reception uni...