ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,490, issued on April 14, was assigned to Zero Emissions Aerospace Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Vehicle hydrogen fire detection device" was invented by Matthew Noel Orchard (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire detection device is designed to make hydrogen fires detectable in aviation operations and similar applications, whether it is for the purpose of detecting a fire around an aircraft prior to passenger and crew emergency evacuation, or to identify fires in proximity to airport ground vehicles that utilise hydrogen as a fuel or vehicles that are used for transporting or transforming hydrogen in any tran...