US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Sept. 23 for "Optical sensor and method of fabricating the optical sensor" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,358, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Optical sensor and method of fabricating the optical sensor" was invented by Khurram Karim Qureshi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Md. Ahasan Habib (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensor that includes a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) and an optical coupler. The PCF includes a hollow core with a first diameter (Dc), an inner cladding section, and an outer layer surrounding the inner cladding section. The inner cladding section includes a cladding material and a plurality of spaced apart circular...