US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "Electric process heater" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,567, issued on Oct. 20.

"Electric process heater" was invented by David TenEycke (Oakville, Canada), Simon Chang (Ancaster, Canada), David Johnston (Burlington, Canada) and Paul Moors (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an electric process heater having a vessel containing a fluid, a plurality of elongated heating elements extending inside the vessel parallel to a central axis of the electric process heater, wherein the heating elements comprise fins. Baffles are disposed at axial intervals inside the electric process heater to redirect the flow of fluid over the heating elements to provide improved h...