US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Sept. 23 for "Fire detection, localization and monitoring system and method for a vehicle compartment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,071, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Fire detection, localization and monitoring system and method for a vehicle compartment" was invented by Holger Mehrholz (Hamburg, Germany) and Lennard Bischof (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire detection, localization and monitoring system for a vehicle compartment, in particular of an aircraft, includes a thermal imaging camera configured to provide thermal monitoring data on heat sources within a monitored area of the vehicle compartment; an optical camera configured to provide visual monitoring data of the monitored area; an...