US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Producs on April 21 for "Test and drain valve with integrated relief valve" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,579, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tyco Fire Producs LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Test and drain valve with integrated relief valve" was invented by James O. Williams (Marlborough, Mass.), Joshua Motha (Tiverton, R.I.), Normand James Roy (Coventry, R.I.) and Krishnaswamy Manikandan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test valve including a body, a test assembly, a relief assembly, and a drain assembly. The body includes an inlet, an outlet, an internal wall isolating the inlet from the outlet, and a drain opening, a relief opening, and a test opening defined by the internal wall and structured to facilitate fluid commu...