US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on July 8 for "Demodulation of fiber optic sensors" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,618, issued on July 8, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Demodulation of fiber optic sensors" was invented by Ming Han (Okemos, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and method for demodulation of a fiber optic sensor is provided. An aspect of the system provides an optical fiber, a laser, a phase modulator configured to be coupled to the optical fiber, and a sensor. The laser emits a laser beam into the optical fiber. The phase modulator receives the laser beam from the laser and directs the laser beam to the sensor. The sensor includes a coiled portion of the o...