ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,540, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TAMRON Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Gas detection system and gas detection device" was invented by Wataru Fuji (Saitama, Japan), Akira Onoda (Saitama, Japan) and Terufusa Kunisada (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas detection device includes a gas detection system configured to image while irradiating, in a dot array shape, infrared light having an absorption wavelength of a gas from a light source, and generates, with a CPU, information on an emphasis image of an image of the gas from image information when irradiating and image information when not irradiating, and a display...