US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on March 24 for "Bragg grated fiber optic fluctuation sensing and monitoring system" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,807, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Bragg grated fiber optic fluctuation sensing and monitoring system" was invented by Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah), Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), Shayne Messerly (Kaysville, Utah) and William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus and method directed to detecting damage to an optical fiber. The optical fiber includes core fibers including a plurality of sensors configured to (i) reflect a light signal based on received incident light, and (ii) change a characteristic of the reflected light sig...