ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,326, issued on May 19, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).
"Burner and method of operation" was invented by Mark Daniel D'Agostini (Allentown, Pa.), Anandkumar Makwana (Breinigsville, Pa.) and Joshua E. Middaugh (Gilbertsville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to particular burners, particularly to non-premixed or partially-premixed dual-fuel burners with flexibility to change the heat input from the two fuels. Accordingly, said burners may be used in applications that needs operation of a burner in both single-fuel, and/or duel-fuel mode depending on furnace operation needs. The i...