ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,068, issued on Sept. 23.
"Multilevel fire detector" was invented by Brian Michael Coyle (Canyon, Calif.) and Alys Larsen (Canyon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilevel fire detector system includes a vessel with low-cost thermoelectric sensors such as thermopiles, facing multiple directions, that amplify infrared (IR) wavelengths particular to wildfire. A controller processes and compares IR data patterns in various ways and determines if potential fire risk or heat surges exceeds a threshold, which is a function of on-board and external data, then produces a warning signal transmitted by a communication system. The sys...