US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on March 17 for "Multiwavelength photoelectric smoke detection apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,256, issued on March 17, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Multiwavelength photoelectric smoke detection apparatus and method" was invented by Hoe-Sung Yang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kang Bok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kwang-Soo Cho (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a multiwavelength photoelectric smoke detection apparatus and method, which reduce non-fire alerts by distinguishing smoke caused by actual fire occurrence and non-fire smoke occurring in daily life when a suspected fire event occurs. The multiwavelength photoelectric smoke det...