US Patent Issued to United States Department of Energy on May 27 for "Simultaneous ultrasonic vibration and gas sensing based on a tunable fiber ring laser" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,540, issued on May 27, was assigned to United States Department of Energy (Washington).

"Simultaneous ultrasonic vibration and gas sensing based on a tunable fiber ring laser" was invented by Nageswara Rao Lalam (Pittsburgh), Michael P. Buric (Fairview, W.va.), Ping Lu (West Hartford, Conn.), Fei Lu (Lubbock, Texas), Tao Hong (Xi'an, China) and Ruishu Feng Wright (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments relates to a system for simultaneously detecting vibration and the presence of a target gas having a tunable fiber ring laser in electronic and optical communication with a vibration sensor and a gas detectio...