US Patent Issued to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION on July 21 for "Aspirating smoke detection unit for reducing environmental electrostatic charge and the spread of airborne contaminants" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,479, issued on July 21, was assigned to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION LLC (Bradenton, Fla.).

"Aspirating smoke detection unit for reducing environmental electrostatic charge and the spread of airborne contaminants" was invented by Pere Moix Olive (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspirating smoke detection unit 1 for limiting the spread of airborne contaminants. The aspirating smoke detection unit 1 includes a smoke detector 5 for detecting the presence of smoke particles suspended in air from a monitored region; an ozone generator 7 for producing ozone from oxygen contained in air from the monitored region 20; and an ioniz...