US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Sept. 29 for "Flow rate detection for an aspirating smoke detection system" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,971, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Flow rate detection for an aspirating smoke detection system" was invented by Aleksis Terence Hughes (Yallambie, Australia), Michael Anthony De Looper (Narre Warren, Australia) and Elizabeth Chai (Malvern East, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems for flow rate detection for an aspirating smoke detection system are described herein. One device includes a flow rate sensor for an aspirating smoke detection system comprising a flow chamber to allow a gas to flow through the flow chamber and a receive coil located ...