US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on March 3 for "Systems and methods of hollow sprinkler buttons with ridges" (Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,747, issued on March 3, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Systems and methods of hollow sprinkler buttons with ridges" was invented by Alex Laprade (Lansdale, Pa.), Patrick Luiz (Lansdale, Pa.), Manuel R. Silva Jr. (Cranston, R.I.) and Sean E. Cutting (West Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sprinkler button includes a body and a wall extending from the body. The body includes a ridge and one or more cavities defined by the ridge and extending into the body. The body defines a hollow chamber on an opposite side of the body from the one or more cavities. The wall includes one or more tabs."

The pate...