ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,815, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Insect guard for an aspirated smoke, gas, or air quality monitoring systems and devices" was invented by Kemal Ajay (Mount Waverley, Australia) and Deepakumar Subbian (Fechy, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems having insect guards in devices and systems for aspirated smoke, gas, or air quality monitoring are described herein. One aspirated smoke, gas, or air quality monitoring unit includes a detector module that includes at least one particulate sensing chamber within the detector module and an air inlet conne...