ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,822, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Utility pole deterioration discrimination device and method" was invented by Tadayuki Iwano (Tokyo), Naoto Ogura (Tokyo), Hiroaki Koshio (Tokyo), Hideaki Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Motohito Ebihara (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deterioration discrimination system according to the present disclosure includes: an optical fiber cable (20) configured to be laid in a utility pole (10); a communication unit (31) configured to receive an optical signal from optical fibers (21) included in the optical fiber cable (20); a detection unit (32) configured to detect...