ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,195, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Brewster angle windows for multi-pass absorption spectroscopy" was invented by Timothy Chen (Los Altos, Calif.) and Abdullah Zafar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include an apparatus with a chamber with a first opening and a second opening. In an embodiment, a first window seals the first opening, and a first mirror is outside of the chamber. The first window and the first mirror are oriented in a non-parallel arrangement with each other. In an embodiment, a second window seals the second opening, and...