US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on June 24 for "Optical fiber characteristic measurement device, optical fiber characteristic measurement program, and optical fiber characteristic measurement method for measuring characteristics of optical fiber based on Brillouin gain spectrum" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,144, issued on June 24, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical fiber characteristic measurement device, optical fiber characteristic measurement program, and optical fiber characteristic measurement method for measuring characteristics of optical fiber based on Brillouin gain spectrum" was invented by Satoshi Matsuura (Musashino, Japan), Shin-Ichirou Tezuka (Musashino, Japan), Masayoshi Honma (Musashino, Japan) and Yoshihiro Kumagai (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber characteristic measurement device (1) includes a light detector (16) configured to detect Brillouin scattered light (LS...