ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,481, issued on April 14, was assigned to BABINGTON TECHNOLOGY INC. (Rocky Mount, N.C.).

"Atomization burner with flexible fire rate" was invented by Andrew D. Babington (Potomac Hills, Md.), Nigel Andrew Jones (Frederick, Md.), Andrew J. Hamer (Richmond, Va.), Juan Carlos Lemus (Rocky Mount, N.C.) and Per Edman (Norrkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A burner includes an atomizing chamber, a flame tube in front of the atomizing chamber adapted to direct combusting fuel introduced by the atomizing chamber along an interior of the flame tube, and a controller. The controller is programmed to independently control rate of fu...