US Patent Issued to Minimax Viking Patent Management on May 6 for "Dry fire protection sprinkler assemblies and systems" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,710, issued on May 6, was assigned to Minimax Viking Patent Management GmbH (Bad Oldesloe, Germany).

"Dry fire protection sprinkler assemblies and systems" was invented by Jason Thomas Watson (Hastings, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic dry sprinkler assemblies for fire protection systems. Preferred embodiments of the automatic dry sprinkler assemblies include a tubular outer housing having an inlet, an outlet opening, and an internal surface configuration proximate the outlet opening that defines an internal landing surface and a cantilevered centering wall. A fluid deflection member is spaced from the outlet opening al...