ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,700, issued on April 8, was assigned to ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET A.S. (Ankara, Turkey).
"Signal loss detection method for distributed acoustic sensing systems" was invented by Abdulsamet Dagasan (Ankara, Turkey), Mustafa Akur (Ankara, Turkey) and Muhammet Emre Sahinoglu (Ankara, Turkey).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that detects locations of undesired levels of signal loss in DAS systems that use optical fibers. In the method, raw DAS signals are received from an optical fiber of a DAS system with dual photodetector positioned at the end(s) of the optical fiber. Locations on the optical fiber are named "channels"...