US Patent Issued to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION on Sept. 16 for "Single-wave multi-angle smoke alarm algorithm" (Florida, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,688, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION LLC (Bradenton, Fla.).

"Single-wave multi-angle smoke alarm algorithm" was invented by Jennifer Alexander (Minneapolis) and Peter Harris (Jupiter, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoke detector is provided and includes a housing defining a chamber for receiving ambient materials, a single receiver, first and second emitters configured to emit light into the chamber to be respectively scattered from the ambient materials toward the single receiver with back scatter and forward scatter effects, respectively, and a controller. The single receiver generates first and s...