US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on March 3 for "Testing a heat detector of a self-testing hazard sensing device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,321, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Testing a heat detector of a self-testing hazard sensing device" was invented by Benjamin H. Wolf (Leicester, Great Britain), Christopher Dearden (Melton Mowbray, Great Britain) and Michael Barson (Nuneaton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for testing a heat detector of a self-testing hazard sensing device are described herein. One device includes a heat detector, and a controller configured to provide energy to the heat detector to heat the heat detector to a threshold temperature, determine an amount o...