US Patent Issued to Kidde Technologies on July 1 for "Dust particulate separator for ducted smoke detectors" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,691, issued on July 1, was assigned to Kidde Technologies Inc. (Wilson, N.C.).

"Dust particulate separator for ducted smoke detectors" was invented by Len D. Seebaluck (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Aaron S. Rogers (Surf City, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ducted smoke detector includes a housing defining an interior cavity, an air inlet in fluid communication with the interior cavity, an air outlet in fluid communication with the interior cavity, a smoke sensing chamber disposed in the interior cavity, and a particulate separator disposed between and in fluid communication with the air inlet and the smoke sensing chamber in the inte...