ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,729, issued on May 20, was assigned to ALCHERAX INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Fire detection system" was invented by Jongsong Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ja-Yeon Jeong (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Young Kyoo Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiheon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hotaek Han (Siheung-si, South Korea), Jai Hoon Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jung-Bae Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a fire detecting system. The fire detecting system includes: an optical flow detecting module for estimating a motion of a fire element from an input image, and determining a first candidate area in the inp...