US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on June 30 for "Smoke detector chamber boundary surfaces" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,423, issued on June 30, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Smoke detector chamber boundary surfaces" was invented by Shrenik Deliwala (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device for optically detecting smoke and implementing thereof. Apparatus and methods for detecting the presence of smoke in a small, long-lasting smoke detector are disclosed. Specifically, the present disclosure shows how to build a very compact housing around the smoke detector while keeping the reflections from the housing structure to a very low value while satisfying all the other peripheral needs of fast response to smoke and p...