US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on June 23 for "Leak detection and/or prevention for high temperature thermal process systems" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,631, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Leak detection and/or prevention for high temperature thermal process systems" was invented by Mehrad Mehr (Morristown, N.J.) and Bahram Jadidian (Watchung, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal process system includes a retort assembly that includes a retort chamber, a heating assembly configured to heat the retort chamber, a vessel housing, a process gas inlet, and a sealing gas inlet. The retort assembly is configured to substantially contain one or more process gases in the retort chamber during a thermal process. The vessel housing i...