US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on Sept. 16 for "Fluid control assemblies for sprinkler systems" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,106, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Fluid control assemblies for sprinkler systems" was invented by James O. Williams (Marlborough, Mass.) and Roger S. Wilkins (Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic fluid control assemblies and methods for fire protection include an arrangement of electrically operated control points, a valve body and a controller to operate the fluid control assembly. The automatic fluid control assembly has an inlet, an outlet and a valve body to control flow between the inlet and the outlet. An electric latch includes a first electrically operated con...