US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Oct. 14 for "Sensor system having transparent window contaminant removal using vibration" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,874, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Sensor system having transparent window contaminant removal using vibration" was invented by Frederick Michael McBride (Belfast, Great Britain) and Timothy Harrison (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system includes: a housing having an internal wall defining an opening; a transparent window mounted within the opening; a sensor device within the housing and having at least one of a sensor output or a sensor input alignable with the transparent window; a vibration device in communication with the trans...