US Patent Issued to Viking Group on Sept. 23 for "Automatic fire sprinklers, systems and methods for fire protection of storage commodities with a hybrid minimum design pressure" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,127, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Viking Group Inc. (Caledonia, Mich.).

"Automatic fire sprinklers, systems and methods for fire protection of storage commodities with a hybrid minimum design pressure" was invented by James E. Golinveaux (Ada, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods using automatic fire protection sprinklers to provide ceiling-only fire protection of rack storage. The systems and methods provide for hydraulic and system parameters that include a hydraulic design area based upon five to no more than twelve hydraulically most remote fire protection sprinklers with a prescribed hybrid minimum des...