ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,725, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Concealed window sprinkler" was invented by Robert Hackett (Cranston, R.I.), Sean E. Cutting (West Warwick, R.I.) and Narayana Rayapati (Cranston, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire exposure protection sprinkler assembly includes a fluid supply line configured to provide fire exposure protection fluid and a fire exposure protection sprinkler. The fire exposure protection sprinkler includes a body coupled to the fluid supply line and configured to receive the fire exposure protection fluid, a sealing assembly configured to unseal in response to ...