ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,933, issued on April 22, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Distributed optical fibre sensor" was invented by Vincent Handerek (Grays, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed optical fibre sensor is described which is arranged to measure one or more parameters as functions of position along a sensing optical fibre that extends along a path through an environment. The sensor includes a first probe light source arranged to generate pulses of first probe light in one or more first wavelength bands, a second probe light source arranged to generate pulses of second probe light in one or more second ...