US Patent Issued to Optoskand on July 7 for "Fiber-optic cable with monitoring of backward-propagating radiation" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,947, issued on July 7, was assigned to Optoskand AB (Molndal, Sweden).

"Fiber-optic cable with monitoring of backward-propagating radiation" was invented by Fredrik Johansson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Christian Rydberg (Grabo, Sweden), Olof Sallhammar (Nodinge, Sweden) and Mats Blomqvist (Savedalen, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber-optic cable includes an optical fiber that transports a forward-propagating laser beam. The optical fiber includes a core, a cladding, and an output end-face emitting the forward-propagating beam. The fiber-optic cable also includes a mode-stripper, along a segment of the optical fiber, that couple...