ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,467, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TAMRON Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Spectroscopic apparatus and gas detection apparatus" was invented by Atsushi Sayama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas detection apparatus includes a spectroscopic apparatus and a gas supply pipe, the spectroscopic apparatus including a light source of near-infrared light having a specified full width at half maximum in the wavelength spectrum, an optical cavity having a pair of reflectors facing each other and having a specific effective reflectivity, and a photodetector that detects intensity of emission light from the optical cavity."

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