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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2018
Applicant:
General Photonics Corporation, Chino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Anton Khomenko, Ontario, CA (US);
Xiaotian Steve Yao, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Xiaojun James Chen, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Photonics Corporation, Chino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02 (2006.01); G01B 11/24 (2006.01); G01M 11/00 (2006.01); G01M 11/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/2441 (2013.01); G01M 11/088 (2013.01); G01M 11/3136 (2013.01); G01M 11/3172 (2013.01);
Abstract
This patent document discloses fiber sensing techniques and devices for shape monitoring by using single- and multi-core optical fiber implementations and optical interferometry. Implementations can be made based on coherent optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) or optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR).