US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on April 29 for "Firefighting foam composition" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,641, issued on April 29, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Firefighting foam composition" was invented by JoAnna M. Monfils (Peshtigo, Wis.), John P. Libal (Peshtigo, Wis.) and Blake H. Bomann (Greenville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fighting a fire includes aerating a firefighting foam composition to form an areated firefighting foam; administering the aerated firefighting foam to a fire or applying the aerated firefighting foam to a surface of a volatile flammable liquid; wherein: the firefighting foam composition includes a sugar component comprising at least about 50 wt. % of a monosaccha...