US Patent Issued to Aktiebolaget SKF on Feb. 17 for "Device for calibrating a fiber optic sensor and associated method, sensor and bearing device" (Swedish, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,795, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Device for calibrating a fiber optic sensor and associated method, sensor and bearing device" was invented by James P. Leblanc (Lulea, Sweden), Stig Robert Selberg (Lulea, Sweden) and Stijn Van Eesbeek (GT Doorn, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device (2) for calibrating a fiber optic sensor in a bearing device (1), comprises an optical fiber (3) including a set (6) of refraction gratings configured to identify the optical fiber (3), the device comprising: an optical interrogator (7) configured to emit an optical signal into the optical fib...