ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,958, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).
"Interferometric gas sensor" was invented by Hedser Van Brug (The Hague, Netherlands) and Huibert Visser (Rotterdam, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector system for spatially resolved detection of a gas substance in an area is described. The detector system includes a detector comprising an image sensor; a band filter arranged in an optical beam path before the detector for transferring a beam with a wavelength spectrum including an absorption wavelength corresponding to th...