ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,780, issued on July 28, was assigned to SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG (Zurich).
"Fire detector having unheated thermistors for capturing thermal fluctuations in the region of the inlet openings" was invented by Ulrich Kuhn-Matysiak (Staufen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a fire detector configured to capture a fire parameter and to output a fire alarm. An example comprises a housing with inlet openings and thermistors, in particular NTCs, arranged in the region of the inlet openings. The fire detector comprises a control unit connected to the thermistors for capturing temperature measurement signals. The contro...