ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,071, issued on April 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for gas reuse in testing of hazardous gas detecting instruments" was invented by Shane Lee McEwen (Morris Plains, N.J.), Jacob Thomas Spector (Morris Plains, N.J.), Andrew Nilsson (Morris Plains, N.J.) and Chris Press (Morris Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate generally to a gas detector test fixture that recycles test gas. A portable gas detector test fixture, comprises a test chamber, a processor, a docking connector communicatively coupled to the processor, an output device communicatively coupled ...