US Patent Issued to Viking Group, Minimax Viking Patent Management on Feb. 24 for "Fluid control valve assembly for fire protection systems" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,583, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Viking Group Inc. (Caledonia, Mich.) and Minimax Viking Patent Management GmbH (Bad Oldesloe, Germany).

"Fluid control valve assembly for fire protection systems" was invented by Martin H Workman (Delton, Mich.) and Shawn J. Feenstra (Caledonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluid control valve assemblies for use in fire protection sprinkler systems to control the flow of firefighting fluid to the system sprinklers. The assemblies include a pressure-operated fluid control valve having an internal fluid chamber in which fluid contained therein acts on an internal diaphragm to control the ...