ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,995, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rebellion Photonics Inc. (Houston).

"Mobile gas and chemical imaging camera" was invented by Robert Timothy Kester (Pearland, Texas) and Nathan Adrian Hagen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an infrared (IR) imaging system for determining a concentration of a target species in an object is disclosed. The imaging system can include an optical system including an optical focal plane array (FPA) unit. The optical system can have components defining at least two optical channels thereof, said at least two optical channels being spatially and spectrally different from one ano...