ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug 13 -- Advanced Energy Industries, Fort Collins, Colorado, has been assigned a patent (8,742,939) developed by three co-inventors for systems, methods, and apparatus "for rapidly detecting smoke or other particles or aerosols generated in any one or more compartments of a multi-compartment electronics." The co-inventors are Scott Polak, Fort Collins, Colorado, Jeffrey Roberg, Longmont, Colorado, and Michael Mueller, Loveland, Colorado.

The patent application wa . . .