G08B 17/12
Actuation by presence of radiation or particles
Official title: Actuation by presence of radiation or particles, e.g. of infrared radiation or of ions
G08B17/12 (Actuation by presence of radiation or particles) appears on 636 US grants and 626 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G08B- Granted patents
- 636
- Published applications
- 626
- Assignees
- 407
- Inventors
- 1,435
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
| 1977 | 6 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 8 | 0 |
| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 7 | 0 |
| 1984 | 7 | 0 |
| 1985 | 8 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 11 | 0 |
| 1988 | 14 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 12 | 0 |
| 1992 | 9 | 0 |
| 1993 | 9 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 3 |
| 2002 | 5 | 13 |
| 2003 | 10 | 16 |
| 2004 | 9 | 11 |
| 2005 | 7 | 12 |
| 2006 | 11 | 13 |
| 2007 | 11 | 8 |
| 2008 | 3 | 22 |
| 2009 | 14 | 14 |
| 2010 | 18 | 18 |
| 2011 | 10 | 14 |
| 2012 | 10 | 16 |
| 2013 | 15 | 14 |
| 2014 | 8 | 19 |
| 2015 | 14 | 26 |
| 2016 | 18 | 23 |
| 2017 | 18 | 29 |
| 2018 | 25 | 23 |
| 2019 | 28 | 39 |
| 2020 | 32 | 46 |
| 2021 | 37 | 40 |
| 2022 | 25 | 43 |
| 2023 | 30 | 46 |
| 2024 | 34 | 44 |
| 2025 | 39 | 43 |
| 2026 | 26 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Benchmark test point with integrated RFID technology for a particle detector15 Sep 2026US 12,736,442 B2Rockwell Research and Development Group, LLC
- System for detecting fire outbreaks comprising a plurality of detection devices forming a meshing8 Sep 2026US 12,731,476 B2Sylviacare
- System and method of detecting environmental changes using wireless sensing8 Sep 2026US 12,732,252 B2NewSouth Innovations Pty Limited
- Battery pack fire detection system for electric mobility1 Sep 2026US 12,725,500 B2KB Global Media Co., Ltd.
- Broadband camera for flame detection and detection of a thermal image of the scene of the flame25 Aug 2026US 12,720,175 B2LightPath Technologies, Inc.
- Fire classification based flame detection1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298712 A1
- False alarm immunity of single spectral sensor using multi-channel frequency segmentation1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298715 A1
- Early stage fire detection using infrared technology17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279177 A1Tyco Fire Products LP
- Control system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279178 A1Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha
- Fire event detection27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253479 A1Alarm.com Incorporated
Most cited
By later US patents
- Virtual sensors291US 9,064,394 B1Alarm.com Incorporated · 2015
- Monitoring system employing infrared image127US 5,133,605 AFujitsu Limited · 1992
- Surveillance monitor system using image processing for monitoring fires and thefts113US 5,289,275 AHochiki Corporation · 1994
- Fire detector with modulation index measurement97US 6,515,283 B1Fire Sentry Corporation · 2003
- Fire detection systems and methods85US 5,832,187 ALemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation, L.P. · 1998