US Patent Issued to Minimax Viking Patent Management on June 30 for "Multi-region fire-extinguishing system and region blocking device" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,742, issued on June 30, was assigned to Minimax Viking Patent Management GmbH (Bad Oldesloe, Germany).

"Multi-region fire-extinguishing system and region blocking device" was invented by Thomas Notzel (Lubeck, Germany) and Wolfgang Habitzl (Neumitterndorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a multi-area fire extinguishing system, having a control system, a number of fluid control lines that are configured to transmit a control pressure as a function of control commands of the control system, and a number of fluid-actuated area valves that are each in fluid communication with the control lines, wherein the...