US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "DC brush-arc furnace with arc deflection compensation" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,351, issued on Oct. 20.

"DC brush-arc furnace with arc deflection compensation" was invented by Frederik Petrus Greyling (Middelburg, South Africa) and Jonathan Graeme Lennox (Middelburg, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for a DC brush-arc furnace comprising a vessel 12 and first and second electrodes 16, 18. A first DC power supply 20 supplies power to the electrodes. A first conductor 26 extends parallel to the first electrode, so that a first current flows in a first direction through the first conductor and in a second opposite direction in the first electrode. A second conductor 28 extends paral...