ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,040, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ZHEJIANG PIXFRA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Systems and methods for smoke detection" was invented by Huachao Lu (Hangzhou, China), Su Liu (Hangzhou, China), Diquan Xu (Hangzhou, China), Tao Pu (Hangzhou, China), Ziwei Wei (Hangzhou, China) and Lianpeng Wu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for smoke detection using object detection devices are provided. The object detection device may include a first imaging component and a moveable component configured to move the first imaging component. The system may obtain a current image of a first subject acquir...