US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on July 28 for "Photonically multiplexed optical measurement apparatus and performing optical multiplexing" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,001, issued on July 28, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Photonically multiplexed optical measurement apparatus and performing optical multiplexing" was invented by Stephen Paul Eckel (Rockville, Md.) and Daniel Schaeder Barker (Olney, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonically multiplexed optical measurement apparatus for performing optical multiplexing includes a laser that produces laser light, an optical switch that receives the laser light from the laser and produces a switched laser light, and a plurality of sensor heads, each se...