ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,315, issued on May 6, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensor capable of measuring long measuring distance" was invented by Gukbeen Ryu (Seoul, South Korea), Wookjin Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Bae Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Wonsuk Lee (Seoul, South Korea), In Soo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jongbum Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kwan Il Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensor including a first light source to output a first light having a modulated intensity at a preset...