ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,629, issued on March 24, was assigned to FIREYE LLC (Derry, N.H.).
"System and method to detect flame rod/sensor malfunction" was invented by Kanna Selvakani (Telangana, India), Manu Natesan (Telangana, India) and Aditya Kumar (Telangana, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a flame rod of a furnace including: detecting an average current of the flame rod during a burn cycle of the furnace; determining a burn time of the burn cycle of the furnace; and determining a remaining life of the flame rod based on at least the average current and the burn time."
The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2022, under Application...