ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,350, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rosenbauer International AG (Leonding, Austria).

"Lance, in particular extinguishing lance for fighting fires" was invented by Martin Altmueller (Bad Leonfelden, Austria), Florian Kiesenhofer (St. Leonhard bei Freistadt, Austria), Gerhard Lesterl (Katsdorf, Austria) and Roland Weber (Oftering, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lance, in particular for jointly dispensing a pressurized fluid and an additive for penetrating walls, includes a lance body, a handle arrangement, multiple channels and actuator arrangements interacting therewith, a nozzle arrangement as well as at least one con...