ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,236, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FRS Group LLC (Rocklin, Calif.).

"Long-term fire retardant with corrosion inhibitors and methods for making and using same" was invented by Dennis Hulbert (Corvallis, Mont.), Robert J. Burnham (Stevensville, Mont.), Michael S. Schnarr (Roseville, Calif.), Gerald Geissler (Kailua-Kona, Hawaii), David W. Wilkening (Ronan, Mont.), Joseph McLellan (Rocklin, Calif.) and Michael White (Roseville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forest fire retardant composition contains a retardant compound that includes a phosphate salt. The phosphate salt may include diammonium phosphate, diammonium orthophos...