ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,579, issued on July 1.

"Smart fire-extinguishing device and smart fire-extinguishing system including same" was invented by Jung Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to: a smart fire-extinguishing device for automatically performing a fire-extinguishing operation by detecting the outbreak of a fire; and a smart fire-extinguishing system including same, and provides a smart fire-extinguishing device comprising: a chemical storage part in which fire-extinguishing chemicals are filled; a fuse part for exhibiting explosive force so that the fire-extinguishing chemicals of the chemical st...