ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,887, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Concealed window sprinkler frame arms and body orientation" was invented by Robert Hackett (Cranston, R.I.), Sean E Cutting (West Warwick, R.I.), Narayana Rayapati (Cranston, R.I.), Matthew Neal (Coventry, R.I.) and Manuel R. Silva Jr. (Cranston, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire exposure protection sprinkler assembly provides fire exposure protection for one or more windows and includes a fire exposure protection sprinkler, a sealing assembly configured to unseal in response to a fire such that fire exposure protection fluid may flow from the f...