ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,808, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DRAGER SAFETY AG & Co. KGAA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Monitoring system" was invented by Henning Gerder (Lubeck, Germany) and Christoph Osterloh (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system (100") is for aeronautical personnel (99), such as aircraft operators, pilots, co-pilots or passengers of airplanes or aircraft, such as aircraft or helicopters of civil or military aviation, passenger aircraft in scheduled or charter traffic, in particular also ultra-fast aircraft. The monitoring system includes a sensor system (60) for a measurement-based monitoring of the gas concentratio...