US Patent Issued to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION on Oct. 7 for "Smoke alarm with offset detection chamber and shield" (Florida, Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,622, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION LLC (Bradenton, Fla.).

"Smoke alarm with offset detection chamber and shield" was invented by Kenneth J. Mott (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Peter R. Bushnell (Cazenovia, N.Y.), Jennifer Alexander (Minneapolis), Peter R. Harris (Jupiter, Fla.), Daniel Asselin (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Ahmed Hasan (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoke alarm includes a housing having a generally hollow interior, a printed circuit board arranged within the interior of the housing, and an optical chamber assembly connected to the printed circuit board. The optical chamber assembly has an i...