ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,977, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BEKAERT COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY B.V. (Assen, Netherlands).

"Gas burner and heating appliance" was invented by Gerben Van Vliet (Assen, Netherlands), Geert Folkers (Assen, Netherlands), Marc Bus (Assen, Netherlands), Parsa Tashacori (Assen, Netherlands) and Harshit Gupta (Assen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a gas burner that comprises a surface. The surface forms a burner deck comprising burner deck portions and a separation surface. The burner deck portions have holes. The separation surface is arranged to separate the burner deck portions from each other. Less than ...