US Patent Issued to Chelak Medical Solutions on March 4 for "Miniaturization of fiber Bragg grating interrogation for integration into implantable devices" (Texas, Connecticut, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,800, issued on March 4, was assigned to Chelak Medical Solutions Inc. (Houston).

"Miniaturization of fiber Bragg grating interrogation for integration into implantable devices" was invented by Jie Cheng (Bellaire, Texas), Siu Chun M. Ho (Pearland, Texas), Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy (Leawood, Kan.) and Chen Chen (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A miniaturized fiber Bragg grating (FBG) interrogation system may comprise a light source, a FBG sensor, and a photodetector. The FBG sensor may be configured to receive an optical signal from the light source, interact with a transmitted spectrum of the light source over a discri...