Patents by Inventor Philip Newton Winder

Philip Newton Winder 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).

  • Conduit monitoring
    Patent number: 9594002
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of monitoring a fluid carrying conduit, comprising interrogating an optic fiber positioned along the path of the conduit to provide distributed acoustic sensing, measuring by distributed acoustic sensing the acoustic signal at each of a plurality of discrete longitudinal sensing portions along the length of the optic fiber, to monitor the optic fiber for the presence of a first characteristic signal, the first characteristic signal being indicative of ground heave the vicinity of the optic fiber, and determining that a failure has occurred in the conduit when a first characteristic signal is measured in the distributed acoustic sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: OPTASENSE HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Alastair Godfrey, Philip Newton Winder
  • Conduit Monitoring
    Publication number: 20130333474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of monitoring a fluid carrying conduit, comprising interrogating an optic fibre positioned along the path of said conduit to provide distributed acoustic sensing, measuring by distributed acoustic sensing the acoustic signal at each of a plurality of discrete longitudinal sensing portions along the length of the optic fibre, to monitor the optic fibre for the presence of a first characteristic signal, the first characteristic signal being indicative of ground heave the vicinity of the optic fibre, and determining that a failure has occurred in said conduit when a first characteristic signal is measured in the distributed acoustic sensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: OPTASENSE HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Alastair Godfrey, Philip Newton Winder