US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on March 4 for "Sprinkler box for embedded sprinkler pipe system" (American, Dutch, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,866, issued on March 4, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Sprinkler box for embedded sprinkler pipe system" was invented by Vegard Ellefskas (Blystadlia, Norway), Gijsbert van Rooijen (Enschede, Netherlands), Sean E. Cutting (West Warwick, R.I.) and Alex Laprade (Lansdale, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sprinkler assembly includes a pipe portion extending from an inlet end to an outlet end. The sprinkler assembly includes a stop coupled with the outlet end, the stop including a first wall and a second wall extending from the first wall, the first wall across the outlet end, the second wall contacting an i...