ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,577, issued on July 1.

"System and methods for autonomous continuous monitoring, characterizing, detecting, evaluating, selecting, and responding to both impending and existing fire events" was invented by Charles Joseph Wagner (Stratham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally provides systems and methods for autonomous space characterization, data analysis, anomaly detection, hazard probability assessment, and profile deviance assessment and incident response action, and firefighting employing robotically controlled firefighting equipment, autonomous selection and release of firefighting agent, and the au...