ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,390, issued on May 27, was assigned to Verisure Sarl (Versoix, Switzerland).
"Smoke generator with deflector" was invented by Jon Noble Echeverria (Madrid).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoke generator for anti-burglar purposes includes a canister holding means for holding a canister for chemicals to be used to generate smoke wherein the smoke generator further includes a smoke deflector arranged below the position of the canister for even distribution of generated smoke, and wherein the smoke deflector have a smoke deflector cavity of sector shape. The smoke generator is provided with a cartridge for the canister to ease replaceme...