US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on July 22 for "Fire-fighting foam composition with microfibrous cellulose" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,894, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Fire-fighting foam composition with microfibrous cellulose" 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: "An aqueous fire-fighting composition includes a surfactant component that includes an anionic surfactant, a zwitterionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, or a mixture of any two or more thereof, and a suspension agent comprising microfibrous cellulose. The suspension agent may include a water-soluble oligosaccharide and/or polysaccharide co-age...