US Patent Issued to Viking Group, Minimax Viking Patent Management on Feb. 10 for "Protective cover and installation tool for fire protection sprinklers" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,609, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Viking Group Inc. (Caledonia, Mich.) and Minimax Viking Patent Management GmbH (Bad Oldesloe, Germany).

"Protective cover and installation tool for fire protection sprinklers" was invented by Martin H. Workman (Delton, Mich.), Shawn J. Feenstra (Caledonia, Mich.), Gary William Pleyte (Byron Center, Mich.) and Scott T. Franson (Hastings, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method of protecting and installing a fire protection sprinkler. The protective device is embodied as a tubular cap that axially receives the sprinkler. The protection and installation device includes an internal...