ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,081, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MG SMART VENTURES LLC (Dover, Del.).

"Combustion-zone chemical sensing system and associated method" was invented by Eric Christopher Huelson (Golden, Colo.), Bernard P. Masterson (Louisville, Colo.) and Torrey Hayden (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustion-zone chemical sensing system (100) is disclosed that includes pitch reflective optics (110) that collimate MIR electromagnetic energy from an input fiber (150), a reflector (120), catch reflective optics (112) that focus reflected MIR electromagnetic energy into an output fiber (152), and a detector (140) to detect MIR el...