ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,774, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Broadcasting a location of a fire by a sounder device" was invented by Nishant Raj (Gaya, India), Sriramakrishnan Swaminathan (Hosur, India) and Sameer Tripathi (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for broadcasting a location of a fire are described herein. One device includes a controller configured to receive a report of a fire from a fire sensing device, determine a location of the fire based on the fire sensing device that reported the fire, and transmit a message including the location of the fire to a...