US Patent Issued to EOSS on Sept. 22 for "Method and device for measuring a temperature and/or a strain in an optical fiber" (Swiss, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,665, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to EOSS SA (Morges, Switzerland).

"Method and device for measuring a temperature and/or a strain in an optical fiber" was invented by Alexandre Goy (Cuarny, Switzerland), Etienne Rochat (Valeyres-sous-Ursins, Switzerland), Pedro Jose Vidal Moreno (Alcala de Henares, Spain) and Miguel Gonzalez Herraez (Alcala de Henares, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method for measuring a temperature and/or a strain in an optical fiber includes calibrating the optical fiber by measuring a signal sensitive to an intensity and a phase of a Rayleigh backscattering signal of the optical fi...