ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,191, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION LLC (Bradenton, Fla.).

"Aspirating detection system" was invented by Pere Moix Olive (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspirating detection system for detecting a fire event in a monitored environment, a method of determining when an aspirator for an aspirating detection system requires maintenance, and a method of calibrating a control module for an aspirating detection system. The aspirating detection system (1) includes an aspirator (2) for sampling air from the monitored environment (100), and a vibration sensor (3) configured to monitor a vibration s...