Fluorescence based optical switch
CA 2293094 A1 · Owner: Mackinnon, Nicholas · Inventors: Mackinnon, Nicholas
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The invention relates to a fiber optic switch that utilizes a flexible fluorescent film assembly to emit fluorescence excited by incident light. The incident light is emitted from an optical fiber and the fluorescence is collected back into the optical fiber.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 23, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 23, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 23, 2021.
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