ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,084, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to WATER-DOME LTD. (Kamei Yosef, Israel).

"Community outdoor fire defense" was invented by David Shavit (Kermei Yosef, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods are provided for community outdoor fire protection comprising: receiving indicators of a current fire, and responsively determining a level of the current fire risk for each of multiple endpoints of a shared water supply; determining a relative duty cycle for operating each endpoint according to a fire risk; receiving a water pressure measurement of the shared water source and determining a maximum number of concurrent endpo...