ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,267, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Silixa Ltd. (Elstree, Great Britain).
"Fracture detection using distributed optical fiber sensing" was invented by Peter Dawson (Elstree, Great Britain), Veronique Mahue (Elstree, Great Britain), Vu Nguyen (Elstree, Great Britain), Pete Richter (Elstree, Great Britain) and Yinghui Wu (Elstree, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of processing data obtained from distributed optical fiber sensors to detect acoustic energy generated by a poroelastic effect of fractures in a structure, such as a rock formation. The sensing fiber of an optical fiber di...