US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 3 for "Fire detection system and method for monitoring an aircraft compartment and supporting a cockpit crew with taking remedial action in case of a fire alarm" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,331, issued on March 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Fire detection system and method for monitoring an aircraft compartment and supporting a cockpit crew with taking remedial action in case of a fire alarm" was invented by Konstantin Kallergis (Hamburg, Germany) and Bing Chen (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire detection system for monitoring an aircraft compartment and supporting a cockpit crew with taking remedial action in case of a fire alarm with a fire detector within the compartment; a monitoring system within the compartment to provide live monitoring data on cargo; a cargo ...