ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,137, issued on March 31, was assigned to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION LLC (Bradenton, Fla.).

"Condensation monitoring in aspirating smoke detection systems" was invented by Jose Manuel Munuera (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The aspirating detection system (1) comprises: a central detection unit (7) configured to analyse sample air from the monitored environment (100); a sampling pipe (5) for providing the sample air to the central detection unit (7) from the monitored environment (100), wherein the central detection unit (7) is configured to draw the sample air along the sampling pipe (5); at least one ambient temperature...