US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on Sept. 15 for "Dry pipe accelerator systems and methods" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,383, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Dry pipe accelerator systems and methods" was invented by James O. Williams (Marlborough, Mass.) and Joshua Motha (Tiverton, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sprinkler accelerator includes at least one accelerator opening, a vent, an actuator, an orifice, and a filter. The at least one accelerator opening couples with at least one pipe. The at least one pipe is coupled with at least one sprinkler. A gas including at least one of air and nitrogen is in the at least one pipe. The actuator moves, responsive to a rate of change of a first pressure app...