US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on July 22 for "Dry pipe manifold systems and methods" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,889, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Dry pipe manifold systems and methods" was invented by James O. Williams (Marlborough, Mass.), Joshua Motha (Tiverton, R.I.) and Normand James Roy (Coventry, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods of assembly of a dry pipe manifold assembly. The dry pipe manifold assembly including a lower plate and an upper plate fixed to the lower plate creating a water passage with a series of ports. The assembly further including a dry pipe actuator, manual reset actuator sub-assembly, manual trip valve, and alarm test sub-assembly fixe...