ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,940, issued on June 10, was assigned to Fike Corp. (Blue Springs, Mo.).
"System and method for detecting and suppressing dust explosions" was invented by Jim Vingerhoets (Rijkevorsel, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (10) and method (100) for detecting and suppressing a dust explosion occurring in a process enclosure (12). A sensor (14) generates a pressure signal indicative of a pressure within the enclosure (12). A processing element (16) analyzes the signal to determine whether the dust explosion is occurring. The signal is sampled at a higher frequency, and then converted to a lower frequency by averaging, then fil...