US Patent Issued to UL on April 8 for "Systems and methods for wildfire smoke generation and electronics testing" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,751, issued on April 8, was assigned to UL LLC (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for wildfire smoke generation and electronics testing" was invented by Veronica Kimmerly (Northbrook, Ill.) and Gregory Sutter (Lake Villa, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first chamber is configured to generate smoke from combustion of a combustible material within the first chamber. A second chamber is configured to house an electronic device. The first chamber and the second chamber are fluidly connected. The apparatus further includes an air pump configured to move the smoke generated in the first chamber into the second chamber. While t...