ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,714, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium) and Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Optical alignment compensation system for a gas detection system" was invented by Giorgio Signorello (Zurich), Orges Furxhi (Fort Collins, Colo.), Joris Van Campenhout (Leuven, Belgium), Anton Vasiliev (Bredene, Belgium) and Olivier Rousseaux (Oud-Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an optical alignment compensation system for a gas detection system, in particular, to an integrated alignment compensation system for an open-path gas sensing system. The optical alignment compensation...