US Patent Issued to Fike on May 12 for "Anechoic chamber fire protection system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,104, issued on May 12, was assigned to Fike Corp. (Blue Springs, Mo.).

"Anechoic chamber fire protection system" was invented by Corry Giffin (Grain Valley, Mo.), Gene Hill (Odessa, Mo.), Devang Patel (Luton, Great Britain) and Bradford T. Stilwell (Blue Springs, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nozzle box unit forming a component of an anechoic chamber fire suppression system is provided. The nozzle box unit includes a pusher assembly that is configured to dislodge a piece of acoustic material positioned in front of the nozzle box so as to permit discharge of a fire suppressing material from a nozzle mounted inside the nozzle box...