ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,744, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kidde-Fenwal LLC (Ashland, Mass.).
"Inerting intermittent suppression system" was invented by John Kliem (Wayland, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a suppression system includes opening a discharge valve associated with a pressurized vessel containing suppression agent in response to detection of a hazardous condition within an area being monitored, releasing suppression agent into the area being monitored via a discharge nozzle, and detecting that the hazardous condition is no longer present in the area being monitored. The discharge valve is closed by the actuator in...