US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on July 15 for "Fire extinguishing discharge nozzle for helicopter engine compartment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,858, issued on July 15, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Fire extinguishing discharge nozzle for helicopter engine compartment" was invented by Thomas Dewey Parsons (Fort Worth, Texas), Keith David Weaver (North Richland Hills, Texas), Chris James Ludtke (Grapevine, Texas), Paul Madej (Grand Prairie, Texas) and Andrew Jordan Birkenheuer (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a rotorcraft comprising an airframe having an engine compartment, an engine disposed within the engine compartment, at least one fire bottle configured to hold a fire extinguishing agent, at least...