US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry on Sept. 15 for "System and method for fire detection" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,136, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"System and method for fire detection" was invented by Alan V. Vapurcuyan (Montville, N.J.) and Paul Richard Strelecki (Whitehouse Station, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building management system for predictive fire detection comprises an input component, a processor, and an output component. The input component receives data corresponding to a personal object entering a building boundary and a location of the object tracked within the building boundary. The personal object is associated with a user profile and a first fire hazard property. Th...