ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,401, issued on March 25, was assigned to SOMNI CORPORATION B.V. (The Hague, Netherlands).
"Fibre optic accelerometer" was invented by Eric Meijer (The Hague, Netherlands), German Enrique Knoppers (The Hague, Netherlands), Yorick Koumans (The Hague, Netherlands) and Bastiaan Meulblok (The Hague, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accelerometer for measuring acceleration along a measurement direction including a moving mass which is moving with respect to a frame member only along the measurement direction, a suspension system for suspending the moving mass in the frame member while substantially limiting movement of the movin...