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Below is a list of issued US Patents owned by or licensed to CiDRA. Many other patents are pending. CiDRA products and/or services may be covered by one or more of the below-listed US patents or foreign counterparts thereto. Please return to this site often to obtain the latest list of issued CiDRA US patents. You may obtain a copy of these patents from www.USPTO.gov.

CiDRA
US Patent        Issue Date        Title
6,118,914        09/12/00        Method and Device for Providing Stable and Precise Optical Reference Signals  
6,249,624        06/19/01        Method and Apparatus for Forming a Bragg Grating with High Intensity Light  
6,298,184        10/02/01        Method and Apparatus for Forming a Tube-Encased Bragg Grating  
6,310,990        10/30/01        Tunable Optical Structure Featuring Feedback Control  
6,317,555        11/13/01        Creep-Resistant Optical Fiber Attachment  
6,321,007        11/20/01        Optical Fiber Having a Bragg Grating Formed in Its Cladding  
6,346,702        02/12/02        Fiber Bragg Grating Peak Detection System and Method for Doing the Same.  
6,403,949        06/11/02        Method and Apparatus for Correcting Systematic Error in a Wavelength Measuring Device.  
6,450,037        09/17/02        Non-Instrusive Fiber Optic Pressure Sensor for Measuring Unsteady Pressures within a Pipe.  
6,453,108        09/17/02        Athermal Bragg Grating Package with Coarse and Fine Mechanical Tuning.  
6,456,771        09/24/02        Optical Fiber with a Pure Silica Core Having a Bragg Grating Formed in its Core and a Process for Providing Same.  
6,462,329        10/08/02        Fiber Bragg Grating Reference Sensor for Precise Reference Temperature Measurement.  
6,466,716        10/15/02        Optical Fiber Having a Bragg Grating in a Wrap that Resists Temperature induced changes in Length.  
6,470,036        10/22/02        Tunable External Cavity Semiconductor Laser Incorporating Tunable Bragg Grating.  
6,507,693        01/14/03        Creep-Resistant Optical Fiber Attachment.  
6,529,923        03/04/03        Method for Improving the Accuracy in the Determination of a Waveform Center  
6,563,968        05/13/03        Tunable Optical Structure Featuring Feedback Control  
6,594,081        07/15/03        Actuator Mechanism for Tuning an Optice Device  
6,594,288        07/15/03        Tunable Raman Laser and Amplifier  
6,594,410        07/15/03        Wide Range Tunable Optical Filter  
6,597,711        07/22/03        Bragg Grating based laser  
6,601,411        08/05/03        Method for Annealing an Optical Waveguide Having a Bragg Grating  
6,621,957        09/16/03        Temperature Compensated Optical Device  
6,633,695        10/14/03        Compression-Tuned Grating Based Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer  
6,732,575        05/11/04        Fluid Parameter Measurement in Pipes Using Acoustic Pressures  
6,753,034        06/22/04        Method of Metallization of an Optical Waveguide  
6,763,043        07/13/04        Tunable Grating Based Dispersion Compensator  
6,776,045        08/17/04        Bragg Grating Pressure Sensor for Industrial Sensing Applications.  
6,792,009        09/14/04        Tunable Grating-Based Channel Filter Parking Device.  
6,804,693        10/12/04        Method for Reducing Skew in a Real-time Centroid Calculation.  
6,810,178        10/26/04        Large diameter optical waveguide having blazed grating therin  
6,826,343        11/30/04        Large diameter multi core waveguide  
6,834,142        12/21/04        Optical grating based filter  
6,856,729        02/15/05        Wavelength monitor utilizing a tunable bragg grating and blazed grating  
6,865,194        03/08/05        Strain Isolated Bragg Grating Temperature Sensor  
6,889,562        05/10/05        Flow Rate Measurement for industrial sensing applications using unsteady pressures  
6,915,048        07/05/05        Fabry-perot filter/resonator  
6,922,277        07/26/05        Optical interleaver/deinterleaver device having an array of mirco-mirrors  
6,934,069        08/23/05        Chromatic dispersion compensation device having an array of micromirrors  
6,947,640        09/20/05        Alignment and imaging system for writing bragg gratings  
6,956,687        10/18/05        Optical blocking filter having an array of micromirrors  
6,959,604        11/01/05        Non-Intrusive fiber optic pressure sensor for measuring unsteady pressures in a pipe  
6,988,411        01/24/06        Fluid parameter measurement in pipes using acoustic pressures  
6,996,316        02/07/06        Large diameter D-shaped waveguide and optical coupler  
7,006,206        02/28/06        Method and apparatus for detecting peaks in an optical signal using a cross-correlation filter  
7,019,883        03/28/06        Dynamic optical filter having a spatial light modulator  
7,032,432        04/25/06        Apparatus and method for measuring parameters of a mixture having liquid droplets suspended in a vapor flowing in a pipe  
7,058,549        06/06/06        Apparatus and method for measuring unsteady pressures within a large diameter pipe  
7,062,126        06/13/06        Large diameter optical waveguide having bragg grating and being configured for reducing the bulk modulus of compressibility  
7,062,976        06/20/06        An apparatus and method for measuring gas volume fraction of a fluid flowing within a pipe  
7,068,897        06/27/06        Method for restoring or increasing photosensitivity in hydrogen or deuterium loaded large diameter optical waveguide  
7,086,278        08/08/06        Measurement of entrained and dissolved gasesin process flow lines  
7,096,719        08/29/06        Apparatus for measuring parameters of a flowing multiphase mixture  
7,110,893        09/19/06        Method and apparatus for measuring a parameter of a fluid flowing within a pipe using an array of sensors  
7,121,152        10/17/06        A portable flow measurement apparatus having an array of sensors  
7,123,833        10/17/06        Dynamically reconfigurable optical smart node  
7,126,740        10/24/06        Multifunctional optical device having a spatial light modulator with an array of micromirrors.  
7,127,360        10/24/06        Dual function flow measurement apparatus having an array of sensors  
7,134,320        11/14/06        Apparatus and method for providnig a density measurement augmented for entrained gas  
7,139,667        11/21/06        Method for calibrating a volumetric flow meter having an array of sensors  
7,146,864        12/12/06        An apparatus having a multiband sensor assembly for measuring a paramenter of a fluid flow flowing within a pipe  
7,150,202        12/19/06        Method and apparatus for measuring characteristics of core-annular flow  
7,152,003        12/19/06        Method and apparatus for determining a quality metric of a measurement of a fluid parameter  
7,152,460        12/26/06        An apparatus and method for compensating a coriolis meter  
7,165,464        01/23/07        An apparatus and method for providing a flow measurement compensated for entrained gas  
7,171,315        01/30/07        Method and apparatus for measuring a parameter of a fluid flowing within a using sub-array processing  
7,197,938        04/03/07        Contact-based transducers for charactarizing unsteady pressures in pipes  
7,197,942        04/03/07        Apparatus for measuring velocity and flow rate of a fluid having a non-negligible axial mach number using an array of sensors  
7,237,440        07/03/07        A flow measurement apparatus having strain-based sensors and ultrasonic sensors  
7,245,385        07/17/07        Characterizing unsteady pressures in pipes using optical measurement devices  
7,253,742        08/07/07        Method and apparatus for measuring parameters of a fluid flowing within a pipe using a configurable array of sensors  
7,253,897        08/07/07        Optical spectrum analyzer  
7,261,002        08/28/07        Flow rate measurement using unsteady pressures  
7,302,861        12/04/07        A portable flow measurement apparatus having an array of sensors  
7,308,820        12/18/07        Piezocable based sensor for measuring unsteady pressures inside a pipe  
7,322,245        01/29/08        Apparatus and method for measuring a fluid flowing in a pipe using acoustic pressures  
7,322,251        01/29/08        Method and apparatus for measuring a parameter of a high temperature fluid within a pipe using an array of piezoelectric based flow sensors  
7,328,624        02/12/08        Probe for Measuring Parameters of a Flowing Fluid and/or Multiphase Mixture  
7,330,797        02/12/08        An Apparatus and Method for Measuring Settlement of Solids in a Multiphase Flow  
7,337,075        02/26/08        Apparatus and Method for Measuring Parameters Of A Mixture Having Liquid Droplets Suspended in A Vapor Flowing In A Pipe  


Weatherford/Lamb Inc. (Licensed to CiDRA)
US Patent        Issue Date        Title
5,767,411        6/16/98        Apparatus for Enhancing Strain in Intrinsic Fiber Optic Sensors and Packaging Same for Harsh Environments  
5,844,667        12/1/98        Fiber Optic Pressure Sensor with Passive Temperature Compensation  
5,877,426        3/2/99        Bourdon Tube Pressure Gauge with Integral Optical Strain Sensors for Measuring Tension or Compressive Strain  
5,892,860        4/6/99        Multi-Parameter Fiber Optic Sensor for use in Harsh Environments  
5,925,879        7/20/99        Oil and Gas Well Packer having Fiber Optic Bragg Grating Sensors for Downhole Insitu Inflation Monitoring  
5,945,665        8/31/99        Bolt, Stud or Fastener having an embedded Fiber Optic Bragg Grating Sensor for Sensing Tensioning Strain  
5,973,317        10/26/99        Washer having Fiber Optic Bragg Grating Sensors for Sensing a Shoulder Load between Components in a Drill String  
5,986,749        11/16/99        Fiber Optic Sensing System  
5,987,197        11/16/99        Array Topologies for Implementing Serial Fiber Bragg Grating Interferometer Arrays  
6,009,216        12/28/99        Coiled Tubing Sensor System for Delivery of Distributed Mulitplexed Sensors  
6,016,702        1/25/00        High Sensitivity Fiber Optic Pressure Sensor for use in Harsh Environments  
6,072,567        6/6/00        Vertical Seismic Profiling System having Vertical Seismic Profiling Optical Signal Processing Equipment and Fiber Bragg Grafting Optical Sensors  
6,137,621        10/24/00        Acoustic Logging System using Fiber Optics  
6,175,108        1/16/01        Accelerometer Featuring Fiber Optic Bragg Grating Sensor for Providing Multiplexed Mulit-Axis Acceleration Sensing  
6,191,414        02/20/01        Composite form as a component for a Pressure Transducer  
6,227,114        5/8/01        Select Trigger and Detonation System using an Optical Fiber  
6,229,827        05/8/01        Compression-Tuned Bragg Grating and Laser  
6,233,374        5/15/01        Mandrel-Wound Fiber Optic Pressure Sensor  
6,252,656        6/26/01        Apparatus and Method of Siesmic Sensing Systems using Fiber Optics  
6,271,766        8/7/01        Distributed Selectable Latent Fiber Optic Sensors  
6,274,863        8/14/01        Selective Aperture Arrays for Seismic Monitoring  
6,278,811        8/21/01        Fiber Optic Bragg Grating Pressure Sensor  
6,279,660        8/28/01        Apparatus for Optimizing Production of Mulit-Phase Fluid  
6,305,227        10/23/01        Sensing Systems Using Quartz Sensors and Fiber Optics  
6,338,579        1/15/02        Fiber Optic Sleeve Assembly for use at a Splice Junction of a Fiber Optic Cable  
6,351,987        3/5/02        Fiber Optic Pressure Sensor for DC Pressure and Temperature  
6,354,147        3/12/02        Fluid Parameter Measurement in Pipes using Acoustic Pressures  
6,363,089        03/26/02        Compression-Tuned Bragg Grating and Laser.  
6,404,961        6/11/02        Optical Fiber Cable having Fiber in Metal Tube Core with Outer Protective Layer  
6,414,303        7/2/02        High Accuracy Bragg Grating Based Pressure Sensor with Dual Resolution Mode  
6,422,084        7/23/02        Bragg Grating Pressure Sensor  
6,435,030        8/20/02        Measurement of Propagating Acoustic Waves in Compliant Pipes  
6,439,055        8/27/02        Pressure Sensor Assembly Structure to Insulate a Pressure Sensing Device from Harsh Environments  
6,443,226        9/3/02        Apparatus for Protecting Sensors within a Well Environment.  
6,445,868        9/3/02        Optical Fiber Feedthrough Assembly and Method of Making Same  
6,448,551        9/10/02        Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor System having Enhanced Strain-to-Wavelength Responsivity by using a Spectral Beating Based Vernier Effect  
6,452,667        9/17/02        Pressure-Isolated Bragg Grating Temperature Sensor  
6,463,813        10/15/02        Displacement Based Pressure Sensor Measuring Unsteady Pressure in a Pipe  
6,490,931        12/10/02        Fused Tension-Based Fiber Grating Pressure Sensor  
6,496,625        12/17/02        Transmission Cable Optical Fiber Protector and Method  
6,501,067        12/31/02        Apparatus for Protecting Sensing Devices  
6,519,388        02/11/03        Tube-Encased Fiber Grating  
6,526,212        02/25/03        Optical Fiber Bulkhead Feedthrough Assembly and Method of Making Same.  
6,536,291        03/25/03        Optical Flow Rate Measurement Using Unsteady Pressures  
6,550,342        04/22/03        Circumferential Strain Attenuator  
6,558,036        5/6/03        Non-Intrusive Temperature Sensor For Measuring Internal Temperature of Fluids Within Pipes  
6,575,033        6/10/03        Highly Sensitive Accelerometer  
6,587,798        7/1/03        Method and System for Determining the Speed of Sound in a Fluid within a Conduit  
6,601,458        8/5/03        Distributed Sound Speed Measurements for Multiphase Flow Measurement  
6,601,671        8/5/03        Method and Apparatus for Seismically Surveying an Earth Formation in Relation to a Borehold  
6,609,069        08/19/03        Method and Apparatus for Determining the Flow Velocity of a Fluid within a Pipe  
6,626,043        09/30/03        Fluid Diffusion Resistent Glass-Encased Fiber Optic Sensor  
6,668,656        12/30/03        Optical Sensor having Differing Diameters  
6,685,361        02/03/04        Fiber Optic Cable Connections for Downhole Applications  
6,690,866        02/10/04        Optical Fiber Cable for use in Harsh Environments  
6,691,584        02/17/04        Flow Rate Measurement Using Unsteady Pressures  
6,698,297        03/02/04        Venturi Augmented Flow Meter  
6,768,825        07/27/04        Optical Sensor Device Having Creep-Resistant Optical Fiber Attachments.  
6,782,150        08/24/04        Apparatus for Sensing Fluid In a Pipe  
6,785,004        08/31/04        Method and apparatus for interrograting fiber optic sensors  
6,789,424        09/14/04        Highly sensitive accelerometer  
6,813,013        11/02/04        Pressure isolated bragg grating temperature sensor  
6,813,962        11/09/04        Distributed sound speed measurements for multiphase flow measurement  
6,820,489        11/23/04        Optical differential pressure sensor  
6,837,098        01/04/05        Sand monitoring within wells using acoustic arrays  
6,840,114        01/11/05        Housing on the exterior of a well casing for fiber sensors  
6,862,920        03/08/05        Fluid Parameter Measurement in Pipes using acoustic pressures  
6,868,737        03/22/05        Circumferential strain attenuator  
6,877,378        04/12/05        Fluid Diffusion resistant glass-encased fiber optic sensor  
6,888,972        05/03/05        Multiple component sensor mechanism  
6,891,621        05/10/05        Highly sensitive cross axis accelerometer  
6,898,338        05/24/05        A Fabry-Perot element based on a large-diameter optical waveguide  
6,898,541        05/24/05        Method and apparatus for determining component flow rates for a multi-phase flow  
6,955,085        10/18/05        Optical Accelerometer or displacement device using a flexure system  
6,957,574        10/25/05        Well integrity monitoring system  
6,971,259        12/06/05        Fluid density measurement in pipes using acoustic pressures  
6,982,996        01/03/06        Large diameter optical wave guide, grate and laser  
6,986,276        01/17/06        Deployable mandrel for downhole measurements  
6,995,085        02/07/06        Fiber Optic Based Method and System for Determining and Controlling Position of a Sliding Sleeve Valve  
6,995,352        02/07/06        Fiber optic based method and system for determining and controlling position of a sliding sleeve valve  
7,013,729        03/21/06        Highly sensitive accelerometer  
7,028,538        04/18/06        Sand monitoring within wells using acoustic arrays  
7,028,543        04/18/06        System and method for monitoring performance of downhole equipment using fiber optic based sensors  
7,052,185        05/30/06        Fiber optic cable connectors for downhole applications  
7,059,171        06/19/06        Fluid density measurement in pipes using accoustic pressures  
7,059,172        06/13/06        Fluid density measurement in pipes using accoustic pressures  
7,080,529        07/25/06        A method for making large diameter optical waveguide having bragg grating and being configured for reducing the bulk modulus of compressibility  
7,124,818        10/24/06        Multiple Component Sensor Mechanism  
7,209,606        04/24/07        A Fabry-Perot Element Based on a Large-Diameter Optical Waveguide  




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