US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on March 25 for "Dry pipe accelerator systems and methods" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,466, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sprinkler accelerator system includes an accelerator and at least one orifice. The accelerator is coupled with at least one pipe coupled with at least one sprinkler, and vents gas from the at least one pipe when the at least one sprinkler opens. The at least one orifice controls a rate of change of pressure in the at least one pipe to control operation of a flow control valve coupled with the...