ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,206, issued on June 16, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Multi-directional open path detector system and method of using the same" was invented by Janmejaya Tripathy (Charlotte, N.C.) and Sumit Kulkarni (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to a multi-directional open path detector system comprising: a plurality of transmitters; a receiver configured to receive, for each transmitter, an incoming beam corresponding to a beam signal emitted by a respective transmitter, the receiver comprising: an optical element; at least one detector; and a reflector element in...