US Patent Issued to The Shape Sensing on May 6 for "Calculating distributed twist of a multi-fiber 3D shape sensor bundle (MFB) using optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) phase interrogation data" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,353, issued on May 6, was assigned to The Shape Sensing Co. (Austin, Texas).

"Calculating distributed twist of a multi-fiber 3D shape sensor bundle (MFB) using optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) phase interrogation data" was invented by Alex Tongue (Dripping Springs, Texas), Justin Braun (Austin, Texas) and Pierrick Vulliez (Santa Barbara, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "MFB twist distribution data is calculated along a multi-fiber shape sensor bundle (MFB) using optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) phase interrogation data. Phase data is extracted from OFDR interferometric interrogation data acquired from an...