US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 9 for "Distance correction device, processing device, sensor device, distance correction method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,040, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distance correction device, processing device, sensor device, distance correction method, and recording medium" was invented by Yuma Matsuda (Tokyo) and Tomoyuki Hino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to facilitate accuracy improvement in identification of a position of vibration on a road caused by a vehicle and detected through an optical cable, this distance correction device: derives, from vibration data for each optical fiber distance detected through an optical fiber installed along the road on which the vehicle travels, a first vibration value indicating...