US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Research Center on Aug. 11 for "Optical fiber sensing based on changes in laser emission wavelength" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,390, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Palo Alto Research Center Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Optical fiber sensing based on changes in laser emission wavelength" was invented by Thomas Wunderer (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Ching-Fuh Lin (Christiansburg, Va.) and Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor includes a light emitter capable of producing stimulated emission. The sensor includes an optical fiber comprising at least one fiber Bragg grating. A first end of the optical fiber is optically coupled to a first emitting end of the light emitter. The fiber Bragg grating is located at a measurement region...