US Patent Issued to Well-Sense Technology on Dec. 2 for "Method, device and system for range finding" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,104, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Well-Sense Technology Ltd. (Dyce, Great Britain).

"Method, device and system for range finding" was invented by Daniel George Purkis (Dyce, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method 200, system and device for range finding are provided. The method 200 comprises determining 204 a first optical signature of a spool of optical fibre 16 wound in a winding pattern. The winding pattern comprises repeated changes in a winding parameter to provide a different optical response such that the first optical signature comprises a plurality of markers representing each change in the winding paramet...