US Patent Issued to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA on March 25 for "Apparatus, method and system for detecting presence of a fluid" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,296, issued on March 25, was assigned to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA (Ottawa).

"Apparatus, method and system for detecting presence of a fluid" was invented by Cyril Hnatovsky (Ottawa), Dan Grobnic (Ottawa), Stephen Mihailov (Kanata, Canada), Ping Lu (Stittsville, Canada), Kasthuri De Silva (Milton, Canada), Huimin Ding (Nepean, Canada), David Coulas (Greely, Canada) and Robert Walker (Spencerville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and system are set forth for detection of fluids using Bragg grating sensors, wherein the Bragg grating sensing element comprises an optical fiber having a Bragg grating ...