US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 4 for "Gunshot detection via classification using deep learning and fiber sensing technologies" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,963, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gunshot detection via classification using deep learning and fiber sensing technologies" was invented by Shaobo Han (Princeton, N.J.), Ming-Fang Huang (Princeton, N.J.) and Jian Fang (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning (ML)/artificial intelligence (AI) based distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) system and method providing detection and localization of gunshot events. In addition to the ML/AI DFOS, a signal processing pipeline that compresses an audible distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) waveform data into a small set of features that protects p...