ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,431, issued on June 10, was assigned to MSA Technology LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Gas detector device control based upon accessory identification" was invented by Daniel Miller (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Shane Kelleher (Glenshaw, Pa.), Minh Pham (Slippery Rock, Pa.) and Anthony Bafile (Jeannette, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas detection device for detection of one or more gas analytes in an environment includes a housing including an inlet via which gas to be sampled from the environment enters the housing, a control system within the housing comprising a processor system and a memory system in communicative connection...