TY  - JOUR
AB  - Introduction Optical sensors, and especially fibre optic sensors, offer some significant technical advantages over conventional electronic sensors. These technical advantages have been perceived to be sufficiently significant to have stimulated a large amount of research activity in the UK and elsewhere. Much of the original research has been carried out in universities and polytechnics, but there has also been considerable corporate R&D activity aimed at developing commercial products and systems. The results of much of this corporate work have not been published, except in the form of patents. Patents therefore provide a useful literature which, though of considerable interest to companies, is difficult to analyse and assimilate. For this reason, the DTI Advanced Sensors Technology Transfer Programme commissioned a study of recent optical sensor patents. The aim was to classify and analyse the patents, and to present the findings in a manner which a small or medium size instrumentation company could readily digest.
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
SN  - 0260-2288
DO  - 10.1108/eb007846
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb007846
AU  - McGeehin Peter
PY  - 1991
Y1  - 1991/01/01
TI  - OPTICAL PATENTS — A SOURCE OF BRIGHT IDEAS: UK EXCELS IN AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF OPTICAL SENSOR PATENTS
T2  - Sensor Review
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 24
EP  - 29
Y2  - 2024/05/01
ER  -