ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,759, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for configuring fire extinguishers within a compartment" was invented by Robert S. Wright (Seattle), Daniel Wright Baisley (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Scott Adrian O'Brien (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for configuring one or more fire extinguishers within a compartment include a configuration control unit configured to determine one or more fluid flow paths within the compartment from a fluid dynamics model. The configuration control unit is further configured to determine a configuration for one or more nozzles of ...