Patents by Inventor Arran Gillies

Arran Gillies has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Range extension for optical fiber sensing systems
    Patent number: 10704932
    Abstract: An optical fiber sensing system includes a sensing optical fiber and one or more optical amplifiers in series with the sensing fiber and arranged to increase the power of sensing pulses travelling along the fiber to thereby increase the range of the sensing system. The optical fiber sensing system is one selected from the group including an optical fiber distributed acoustic sensor (DAS), an optical fiber distributed temperature sensor (DTS), or an optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: Silixa Ltd., Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Parker, Mahmoud Farhadiroushan, Arran Gillies
  • RANGE EXTENSION FOR OPTICAL FIBER SENSING SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20170343389
    Abstract: An optical fiber sensing system includes a sensing optical fiber and one or more optical amplifiers in series with the sensing fiber and arranged to increase the power of sensing pulses travelling along the fiber to thereby increase the range of the sensing system. The optical fiber sensing system is one selected from the group including an optical fiber distributed acoustic sensor (DAS), an optical fiber distributed temperature sensor (DTS), or an optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicants: Silixa Ltd., Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Parker, Mahmoud Farhadiroushan, Arran Gillies