US Patent Issued to THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI on Feb. 3 for "High temperature mold gap measurement using optical fiber interferometry" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,814, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (Columbia, Mo.).

"High temperature mold gap measurement using optical fiber interferometry" was invented by Jie Huang (Rolla, Mo.), Ronald O'Malley (Rolla, Mo.), Dinesh Reddy Alla (Rolla, Mo.), Deva Prasaad Neelakandan (Rolla, Mo.) and Muhammad Roman (Rolla, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature insensitive fiber optic Fabry-Perot interferometer based mold gap measurement system that can be employed in foundry and continuous casting facilities for both non-ferrous and ferrous production applications. For steel continuous casting, the sensor is...