US Patent Issued to Edwards on Nov. 3 for "Abatement apparatus" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,960, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Edwards Ltd. (Burgess Hill, Great Britain).

"Abatement apparatus" was invented by Andrew James Seeley (Clevedon, Great Britain), David Frederick Bartz (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Jay Silberstein (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abatement apparatus includes a combustion chamber formed by a foraminous sleeve defining an upstream portion of the combustion chamber for treating an effluent stream, the upstream portion of the combustion chamber having an inlet for receiving the effluent stream and a wetted sleeve fluidly coupled with foraminous sleeve, the wetted sleeve defining a...