US Patent Issued to Thales Management & Services Deutschland on Nov. 3 for "Fiber optic sensor unit, optical measuring system, and axle-counting device and method" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,271, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Thales Management & Services Deutschland GmbH (Ditzingen, Germany).

"Fiber optic sensor unit, optical measuring system, and axle-counting device and method" was invented by David Linsdall (Burnham, Great Britain), Rainer Klemm (Steinheim, Germany), Scarlett Foeller (Koenigsbach-Stein, Germany), Matthias Heyder (Weimar, Germany) and Petar Naumovski (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic sensor unit for detecting a mechanical force acting on a rail includes at least a first sensor fiber, a first elongated fiber optic strain sensor and a second elongated fiber optic strain ...