US Patent Issued to SMART DIGITAL OPTICS on July 7 for "Passive optical Sagnac interferometer for current sensing" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,823, issued on July 7, was assigned to SMART DIGITAL OPTICS PTY LTD (Eveleigh, Australia).

"Passive optical Sagnac interferometer for current sensing" was invented by Matar Mamdouh (Eveleigh, Australia), Andrew Mark Michie (Eveleigh, Australia), John Ingram (Eveleigh, Australia), Jose Miguel Lazaro Urrutia (Eveleigh, Australia) and Andoni Gallastegi Uriarte (Eveleigh, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Passive optical Sagnac interferometers for current sensing, method of using the same and method of constructing the same. In one embodiment, the passive optical Sagnac interferometer for current sensing comprises an NxN fibre coup...