ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,974, issued on June 16, was assigned to Pittway SARL (Rolle, Switzerland).

"Flame monitoring device for a gas burner appliance and gas burner appliance" was invented by Uwe Deptolla (Lotte, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flame monitoring device (23) for a gas burner appliance (10), the gas burner appliance (10) being configured to burn a combustible gas, the combustion of the combustible gas resulting into a flame (12), comprising a flame supervision device (24) providing as measurement signal an electrical voltage signal depending on the presence of the flame (12), and an electronic circuit (25) converting the electrical vol...