ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,039, issued on May 13.
"Failsafe gas leak detection and mitigation system and method" was invented by Kenneth Ray Green (Crossroads, Texas) and Douglas Hiram Morse (Decatur, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A failsafe hydrocarbon-based gas (HBG) leak detection (HLD) and mitigation (HLM) system/method for use in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems that incorporates a hydrocarbon gas sensor (HGS), sensor signal conditioner (SSC), alarm status indicator (ASI), and digital control processor (DCP) is disclosed. The HGS detects ambient hydrocarbon gas (AHG) and presents a hydrocarbon sensor voltage (HSV) to the SS...