US Patent Issued to AGF Manufacturing on July 22 for "Valve system and method for venting and measuring a gas content of a fire suppression system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,890, issued on July 22, was assigned to AGF Manufacturing Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Valve system and method for venting and measuring a gas content of a fire suppression system" was invented by George J. McHugh IV (Malvern, Pa.), James P. McHugh (Newtown Square, Pa.) and Bentley F. Gleeson (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly includes a pipe fitting through which a gas is configured to flow. The inlet of the pipe fitting is configured to connect to an open port of a fire suppression sprinkler system so that gas flows from the fire suppression sprinkler system into the pipe fitting. The valve assembly als...