US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE on Sept. 22 for "Post-processing method to extend the functional range of optical backscatter reflectometry in extreme environments" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,691, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Post-processing method to extend the functional range of optical backscatter reflectometry in extreme environments" was invented by Daniel C. Sweeney (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Christian M. Petrie (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Adrian M. Schrell (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a data processing apparatus and a memory is disclosed. The data processing apparatus is communicatively coupled with an optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) system, and the memory is communicatively coupled with the data processing apparatus. The memory ...