US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Sept. 9 for "Redundant core in multicore optical fiber for safety" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,278, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Redundant core in multicore optical fiber for safety" was invented by Mark E. Froggatt (Blacksburg, Va.), Dawn K. Gifford (Blacksburg, Va.), Jeffrey T. LaCroix (Blacksburg, Va.), Patrick Roye (Christiansburg, Va.) and Alexander K. Sang (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber includes multiple optical cores configured in the fiber including a set of primary cores and an auxiliary core. An interferometric measurement system uses measurements from the multiple primary cores to predict a response from the auxiliary c...