US Patent Issued to MSA Technology on June 23 for "Systems and methods for an open path gas detector with an integrated optical sensor" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,366, issued on June 23, was assigned to MSA Technology LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for an open path gas detector with an integrated optical sensor" was invented by Nicholas Emidio Ciccone (Allison Park, Pa.), Nils von Hemm (Berlin, Switzerland), Gavin Bai (Mars, Pa.) and Henry A. Fonzi III (Mars, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for an open path gas detection system having a receiver with an optical sensor configured to continuously capture optical image data. The field of view of the optical sensor can include the path of a beam of focused light received by a light sensor of...