ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,581, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for detecting smoke" was invented by Andreas Wellhausen (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a machine learning system (10) which is configured, on the basis of a plurality of images captured in succession, to detect smoke (12) within the images. The machine learning system (10) comprises a convolutional recurrent neural network. The invention also relates to a method for detecting smoke by means of this machine learning system."

The patent was filed on May 19, 2020, under Application No. 17/613,67...