US Patent Issued to MARIOFF on March 11 for "Sprinkler and sprinkler system including same" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,204, issued on March 11, was assigned to MARIOFF CORPORATION OY (Vantaa, Finland).

"Sprinkler and sprinkler system including same" was invented by Nazar Krutskevych (Pomorske, Poland) and Wojciech Zimny (Gdansk, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sprinkler includes a sprinkler body having a fluid inlet; a seal configured to prevent fluid flow through the sprinkler body when the seal is in a first position; a bulb configured to retain the seal in the first position, the bulb configured to break at a temperature and allow the seal to move to a second position allowing fluid flow through the sprinkler body; and an identification d...