US Patent Issued to CARRIER on April 29 for "Verifying a false alarm on a smoke detector using an internal air quality sensor" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,460, issued on April 29, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Verifying a false alarm on a smoke detector using an internal air quality sensor" was invented by Kanna Selvakani (Hyderabad, India), Rakesh Annavaram (Hyderabad, India), Rakesh Kumar Arepalli (Hyderabad, India) and Jagadish Reddy Putta (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoke detector system is provided. The smoke detector system includes a smoke detection element. The smoke detector system further includes an internal air quality (IAQ) sensor. The IAQ sensor is disposed and configured to confirm whether an alarm issued by the smoke de...