US Patent Issued to SCUTI AS on March 4 for "Ventilating firestop" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,862, issued on March 4, was assigned to SCUTI AS (Verdal, Norway).

"Ventilating firestop" was invented by Geir Jensen (Trondheim, Norway) and Ruth Astrid Strom (Ekne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a ventilating firestop (10), comprising a load-bearing mesh (12) fitted with an intumescent (14), wherein the mesh (12) is malleable to a completely or partially confined volume (22), and the intumescent (14) applied to the mesh (12) forms a stripe pattern of intumescent spaced apart and with ventilating openings (30) between the stripes. At least the intumescent (14) in a plane which is exposed by fire form...