US Patent Issued to Life Safety Distribution on Oct. 27 for "Sensor with reduced power consumption and associated method" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,925, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Life Safety Distribution GmbH (Rolle, Switzerland).

"Sensor with reduced power consumption and associated method" was invented by Keith Francis Edwin Pratt (Portsmouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing device is provided. For example, a sensing device may include a sensing element, a power supply, and a processor that controls application of power from the power supply to the sensing element and measures a response of the sensing element. The processor controls the application of power from the power supply to the sensing element according to an adaptive duty cycle in whic...