G01V 8/24
Using optical fibres
Official title: using optical fibres
G01V8/24 (Using optical fibres) appears on 75 US grants and 72 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01V- Granted patents
- 75
- Published applications
- 72
- Assignees
- 59
- Inventors
- 201
- Latest grant
- 17 Feb 2026
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| 2023 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Spatial sensing device, spatial sensing system, and spatial sensing method17 Feb 2026US 12,553,749 B2NEC Corporation
- Light source for an optical sensor22 Apr 2025US 12,282,137 B2TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
- Methods and systems for providing access to interferometric system data10 Dec 2024US 12,163,815 B2Hifi Engineering Inc.
- Method of using crowd-sourced echo location pings to detect fiber locations using distributed acoustic sensing29 Oct 2024US 12,130,175 B1Frontier Communications Holdings, LLC
- Distributed acoustic sensing system with propagation direction and related methods2 Jul 2024US 12,025,487 B2Eagle Technology, LLC
- Measurement device, measurement method, and manufacturing method for measurement devices27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251815 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Temperature-strain detection system and method for reservoir rock mass23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211151 A1Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Cas
- Long offset low frequency seismic surveys using optical fibers5 Jun 2025US 2025/0180768 A1Alcatel Submarine Networks Norway AS
- Amount of snowfall estimation system and amount of snowfall estimation method23 Jan 2025US 2025/0028078 A1Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Robust source localization with joint time arrival and velocity estimation for cable cut prevention18 Apr 2024US 2024/0125962 A1NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical fiber based downhole seismic sensor systems and methods63US 9,075,155 B2Halliburton Energy Services.Inc. · 2015
- Light beam detector for door openers using fiber optics55US 5,233,185 AGMI Holdings, Inc. · 1993
- Damage evaluation system and method using optical fibers45US 4,936,649 A1990
- Sample detector40US 4,343,991 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1982
- Distributed optical sensing using compressive sampling29US 10,309,213 B2Halliburton Energy Services.Inc. · 2019