US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on July 28 for "Systems and methods of fluid operated concealed sprinklers within closed cavities" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,313, issued on July 28, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Systems and methods of fluid operated concealed sprinklers within closed cavities" was invented by Alex Laprade (Cranston, R.I.), Sean E. Cutting (West Warwick, R.I.), Krista Nolan (Foxborough, Mass.), Barbara L. Churchill (Pawtucket, R.I.), Steven L. Shields (Lubbock, Texas) and Prashant A. Kulkarni (Cranston, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A concealed sprinkler can include a body that defines an outlet, a seal that seals the outlet, an activation element coupled with the seal, a housing, a cover plate, and a wall. The activation element changes fr...