US Patent Issued to PixArt Imaging on Sept. 8 for "Smoke detector with anti-insect function and spoiler function" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,053, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

"Smoke detector with anti-insect function and spoiler function" was invented by Yen-Chang Chu (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan), Cheng-Nan Tsai (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan), Chih-Ming Sun (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan), Zhi-Hao Wu (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan) and Hung-Yu Lai (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoke detector with an anti-insect function includes a substrate, an optical detection module, a top cover, a base and a perforated plate. The substrate has a ring shape region surrounding a central detection region, and a first block structure of the...