US Patent Issued to Hifi Engineering on March 31 for "Method and system for detecting events in a conduit" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,861, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hifi Engineering Inc. (Alberta Calgary, Canada).

"Method and system for detecting events in a conduit" was invented by Arne Dankers (Calgary, Canada) and Seyed Ehsan Jalilian (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are described methods, systems, and computer-readable media for detecting events in a conduit. Multiple lengths of optical fiber positioned alongside a conduit are used to detect a signal. For each length of optical fiber, interferometric data is obtained from the detected signal. The interferometric data obtained for one length of optical fiber is compared to the int...