ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,531, issued on May 26, was assigned to Minimax Viking Patent Management GmbH (Bad Oldesloe, Germany).

"Fire protection system for fire protection for liquid hazardous goods and corresponding method" was invented by Thorsten Gieseke (Bad Oldesloe, Germany), Dan Kreuscher (Bad Oldesloe, Germany), Georg Baumann (Bad Oldesloe, Germany) and Matthias Pohl (Bad Oldesloe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire protection system for fire protection for liquid hazardous material. The system having at least one storage arrangement for storage of the liquid hazardous material in at least one storage vessel, at least one collecting area, an...