US Patent Issued to VIAVI SOLUTIONS on March 3 for "Distributed optical fibre sensor" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,083, issued on March 3, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Distributed optical fibre sensor" was invented by Vincent Andrei Handerek (Grays, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed optical fibre sensor to measure one or more parameters of an environment as functions of position along a sensing optical fibre passing through the environment, and determines, measures or calculates an OTDR trace or attenuation profile of a sensing optical fibre in a distributed optical fibre sensor. The OTDR trace is to monitored to provide an indicia of properties of the sensing optical fibre in order to determin...