US Patent Issued to NEUBREX on Feb. 10 for "Distributed position detection rope and distributed position detection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,632, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NEUBREX Co. LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Distributed position detection rope and distributed position detection system" was invented by Kinzo Kishida (Kobe, Japan), Yoshiaki Yamauchi (Kobe, Japan), Junichi Kawabata (Tokyo), Shoji Seno (Tokyo), Hideki Nagatani (Tokyo), Michio Imai (Tokyo), Yukihiro Hamada (Oita, Japan) and Kazumitu Watanabe (Oita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed position detection rope includes: basic optical elements each including an optical fiber, tensile strength bodies, and a sheath material and the tensile strength bodies; a cylindrical inner sheath layer having...