Patents by Inventor Randy C. Swingle

Randy C. Swingle 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).

  • Optical fiber continuous measurement system
    Patent number: 7746454
    Abstract: An optical fiber continuous measurement system continually measures at least one optical property along a length of optical fiber. The system includes a rotatable body onto which a reflector is secured. The reflector is optically coupled to an end of the optical fiber, thereby allowing light propagating from the optical fiber to the reflector to be reflected back along the length of the optical fiber toward a measuring device. The property to be measured is acquired as the fiber is wound from one rotatable body to the other. The system is particularly suited for measuring attenuation, including macrobend loss in which case a localized bending mechanism is employed, along the length of the fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles Frederick Laing, Jody Paul Markley, Randy C. Swingle
  • Optical fiber continuous measurement system
    Publication number: 20090244523
    Abstract: An optical fiber continuous measurement system continually measures at least one optical property along a length of optical fiber. The system includes a rotatable body onto which a reflector is secured. The reflector is optically coupled to an end of the optical fiber, thereby allowing light propagating from the optical fiber to the reflector to be reflected back along the length of the optical fiber toward a measuring device. The property to be measured is acquired as the fiber is wound from one rotatable body to the other. The system is particularly suited for measuring attenuation, including macrobend loss in which case a localized bending mechanism is employed, along the length of the fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Charles Frederick Laing, Jody Paul Markley, Randy C. Swingle