US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO on April 29 for "Hollow waveguide for gas detection" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,285, issued on April 29, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Hollow waveguide for gas detection" was invented by Arjen Boersma (Haaren, Netherlands), Javier Nunez Villanueva (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Evert Jonathan Van Den Ham (Wijk en Aalburg, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system, the manufacturing of such system, and the use of such system for optical detection of a target analyte in a gaseous medium are described. The sensor system includes a hollow waveguide that is provided with a reflective mirror layer along its inner...