US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on June 16 for "Systems and methods of flow control valves with manifolds" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,049, issued on June 16, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Systems and methods of flow control valves with manifolds" was invented by James O. Williams (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a manifold and a flow control valve. The flow control valve includes an inlet defining an inlet chamber, an outlet defining an outlet chamber, and a movable member positioned in a control chamber coupled with the inlet and the outlet. The manifold includes a valve actuator, an inlet port that connects with the inlet chamber, an outlet port that connects with the outlet chamber, and a control por...