ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,211, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. Inc. (Liberty, S.C.).

"Fire protection nozzle, fire protection sprinkler, fire protection systems, and methods of manufacturing a fire protection nozzle and a fire protection sprinkler" was invented by Oliver Pahila (Liberty, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire protection nozzle includes (A) a body having a flow passage for a fluid that flows through the body in an output direction, frame arms having proximal ends connected to an outlet orifice and distal ends, the frame arms defining a frame arm plane, and a junction formed by the distal ends of the f...