ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,633, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SOMNI CORPORATION B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).
"Fibre-optic sensor for measuring a physical quantity" was invented by Eric Meijer (Leiderdorp, Netherlands), Bastiaan Meulblok (Roelofarendsveen, Netherlands) and German Enrique Knoppers (Pijnacker, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fibre-optic sensor for measuring a physical quantity, such as a pressure, force, acceleration or tilt, includes an optical fibre having a measurement section for measuring a strain in the fibre, and first and second structural members. The optical fibre is connected to a first fibre connection section of the f...