US Patent Issued to KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN on Feb. 3 for "Method for shape sensing an optical fiber" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,816, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (Leuven, Belgium).

"Method for shape sensing an optical fiber" was invented by Xuan Thao Ha (Leuven, Belgium), Mouloud Ourak (Leuven, Belgium), Gianni Borghesan (Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, Belgium) and Emmanuel Vander Poorten (Mechelen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for shape sensing an optical fiber embedded within an interventional device includes obtaining, from at least one strain sensor, strain-based shape sensing data of the optical fiber. The strain-based shape sensing data is corrected with a strain correction term. A strain-based reconstructed s...