US Patent Issued to THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY on May 6 for "Indoor fire monitoring based on look-up-from-floor sensing of ceiling" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,340, issued on May 6, was assigned to THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY (Hong Kong).

"Indoor fire monitoring based on look-up-from-floor sensing of ceiling" was invented by Qixin Wang (Hong Kong), Xinyan Huang (Hong Kong), Muhammad Shaheer (Hong Kong), Tamzid Mohammad (Hong Kong), Xiaoning Zhang (Hong Kong), Mingchun Luo (Hong Kong), Li-Ta Hsu (Hong Kong), Xiqiang Wu (Hong Kong), Fu Xiao (Hong Kong) and Asif Usmani (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an indoor environment on fire, automatic deployment of sensors disposed on, beneath or over the floor to look upward the ceiling to observe a body of smoke and flame risen ne...