US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on July 1 for "Systems and methods for sprinkler systems with flexible hose and rapid seal adapter" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,360, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Systems and methods for sprinkler systems with flexible hose and rapid seal adapter" was invented by Timothy J. Olson (Cranston, R.I.) and Jeremy Cogswell (Johnston, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sprinkler system includes a fitting and a sprinkler. The fitting includes a hose and at least one adapter coupled with the hose. The at least one adapter includes a first engagement member and a receiver adjacent to the first engagement member. The receiver has a greater inner diameter than the first engagement member. The sprinkler includes a body, at lea...