ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,867, issued on June 23, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Dual-lens smoke detection system" was invented by Nilesh Ashok Naik (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for smoke detection using a smoke detector/fire alarm system implemented as a beam receiver and beam transmitter. In some examples, the beam receiver is configured to receive a plurality of beam pairs including a first beam pair, wherein each beam pair is received via one of a plurality of receive elements, and wherein the first beam pair i...