US Patent Issued on July 28 for "Ocean current detection device and method based on double-helix and double-core vibration fiber-optic cable" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,306, issued on July 28.

"Ocean current detection device and method based on double-helix and double-core vibration fiber-optic cable" was invented by Yixin Zhang (Nanjing, China), Chi Zhang (Nanjing, China), Xuping Zhang (Nanjing, China), Shuai Tong (Nanjing, China), Shun Wang (Nanjing, China), Chenyang Ding (Nanjing, China) and Feng Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ocean current detection device and method based on double-helix and double-core vibration fiber-optic cable, comprises a double-core fiber-optic cable and a Phi-OTDR system; the double-core fiber-optic cable comprises a first and a second optical fib...