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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2019
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mark E. Froggatt, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Justin W. Klein, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Dawn K. Gifford, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Stephen T Kreger, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-core fiber includes multiple optical cores, and for each different core of a set of different cores of the multiple optical cores, a total change in optical length is detected. The total change in optical length represents an accumulation of all changes in optical length for multiple segments of that different core up to a point on the multi-core fiber. A difference is determined between the total changes in optical length for cores of the set of different cores. A twist parameter and/or a bend angle associated with the multi-core fiber at the point on the multi-core fiber is/are determined based on the difference.
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