ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,741, issued on June 30, was assigned to Jetex Innovation S.R.O. (Jesenice-Osnice, Czech Republic).

"Fire extinguishing equipment with fire nozzle" was invented by Igor Alexandrovich Lepeshinsky (Moscow), Radim Snoza (Jesenice Osnice, Czech Republic), Andrey Petrovich Belonogov (Moscow) and Alexander Anatolyevich Migachev (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one structural arrangement the fire fighting nozzle (18) is connected to the compressor (7) of a gas-turbine engine (4). In the second structural arrangement the fire nozzle (18) is connected to a screw compressor (50) connected to a diesel engine (47). Both types of fire ext...