US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on June 17 for "Laser imaging of gases for concentration and location identification" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,170, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Laser imaging of gases for concentration and location identification" was invented by Christopher Ball (Westerville, Ohio), Theodore Ronningen (Lewis Center, Ohio), Douglas Fink (Columbus, Ohio), Brett Ringel (Columbus, Ohio), Sanjay Krishna (Plain City, Ohio), Earl Fuller (Columbus, Ohio) and Douglas Mooney (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method indicate capability for detecting methane leaks inside buildings. This approach provides the ability to detect methane behind high efficiency coated windows and can extract...