ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,713, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Systems and methods for electronically controlling discharge nozzles" was invented by Sean S. Troutt (Stephenson, Mich.) and Adam Staszak (Marinette, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire suppression system includes a controller. The controller is configured to receive sensor data regarding a fire condition from a sensor. The controller is also configured to determine a fire suppression response profile based on the sensor data. The controller is also configured to selectively control a flow rate of each of multiple electronically controllable varia...