US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on May 6 for "System and method for monitoring a reactor system using optical fiber based sensors" (Pennsylvania, West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,124, issued on May 6, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for monitoring a reactor system using optical fiber based sensors" was invented by Peng K. Chen (Pittsburgh), Jacob Lorenzi Poole (Pittsburgh), Paul R. Ohodnicki (Allison Park, Pa.), Thomas D. Brown (Finleyville, Pa.), Kirk R. Gerdes (Morgantown, W.va.) and Michael P. Buric (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring operation of a reactor system includes causing a chemical reaction to occur within an assembly of the reactor system, and measuring a chemical composition of...