ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,668, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MSA Technology LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).
"Power reduction in combustible gas sensors" was invented by Michael Alvin Brown (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Meghan E. Swanson (Cranberry Township, Pa.) and Mark Flori Zanella Sr. (Chicora, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a primary combustible gas sensor and a trigger combustible gas sensor including a first trigger element of low-thermal-mass which includes a first trigger heating element in operative connection with electronic circuitry. The trigger combustible gas sensor also includes a second trigger element of low thermal ma...