US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Oct. 7 for "Methods providing distributed temperature and strain measurements and related sensors" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,043, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods providing distributed temperature and strain measurements and related sensors" was invented by Matthew Joseph Murray (Alexandria, Va.), Joseph Brady Murray (Ellicott City, Md.), Hannah Marie Ogden (Glen Burnie, Md.) and Brandon F. Redding (University Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods providing distributed temperature and strain measurements are disclosed. Brillouin pump laser pulses having a Brillouin pump frequency are coupled into a first end of an optical fiber....