US Patent Issued to Boil Boss on Aug. 11 for "Burner igniter" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,259, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Boil Boss LLC (Harahan, La.).

"Burner igniter" was invented by Robert T. Lapeyre (New Orleans) and Robert S. Lapeyre (New Orleans).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An igniter for a burner in a cooking system. The igniter comprises a spark unit including two electrodes that define a spark gap, a spark module electrically connected to the electrodes to apply a high-voltage pulse across the electrodes to generate a spark in the spark gap, and a remote sending unit that sends an ignite signal to the spark module to generate a spark in the spark gap to light the burner. A local ignite signal can be ini...