ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,660, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Zhejiang University of Science and Technology (Hangzhou, China).

"System and method for breakage early warning of high-voltage transmission lines based on acoustic prints" was invented by Guanglei Li (Hangzhou, China), Yuanyuan Chen (Hangzhou, China), Shuguang Li (Hangzhou, China), Zhangrui Zheng (Hangzhou, China), Chongguang Weng (Hangzhou, China) and Chao Shen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for breakage early warning of high-voltage transmission lines based on acoustic prints, including a data acquisition unit, an edge processing unit, a cloud server, a warning exe...