ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,235, issued on April 29, was assigned to Silixa LTD. (Elstree, Great Britain).
"Method and apparatus for optical sensing" was invented by Mahmoud Farhadiroushan (Elstree, Great Britain), Tom Richard Parker (Elstree, Great Britain) and Sergey Shatalin (Elstree, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel apparatus and methods for fast quantitative measurement of perturbation of optical fields transmitted, reflected and/or scattered along a length of an optical fibre. The present invention can be used for point sensors as well as distributed sensors or the combination of both. In particular this tec...