ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,750, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Optasense Holdings Ltd. (Surrey, Great Britain).
"Fibre optic sensing" was invented by Roger Crickmore (Farnborough, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to methods and apparatus for distributed fibre optic sensing. A sensing apparatus includes an optical arrangement which repeatedly interrogates a sensing optical fibre by launching coherent interrogating optical radiation into the sensing optical fibre. A detector detects Rayleigh backscatter from within the sensing fibre and a processor processes the detected backscatter to determine a measurement signal for e...