ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,316, issued on July 28, was assigned to Fagus-GreCon Greten GmbH & Co. KG (Alfeld, Germany).
"Monitoring and extinguishing device" was invented by Nils Vespermann (Giesen, Germany), Michael Mehlhorn (Bad Gandersheim, Germany), Mario Haas (Hildesheim, Germany) and Marco Kulhawy (Steyerberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for monitoring and controlling the extinguishment of a source of fire or the like in a conveyed material flowing in a pipeline. Danger sources are detected by a sensor system and controlled by introducing a fire extinguishing agent via extinguishing nozzles embedded in the pipe wall. For this purpose,...