US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation, American Air Liquide on Aug. 11 for "Furnace operation method" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,652, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation (Des Procedes Georges Claude Paris, France) and American Air Liquide Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Furnace operation method" was invented by Remi Tsiava (Saint Germain-les-Corbeil, France) and Bhupesh Dhungel (Middletown, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a furnace, the method including the steps of: combusting fuel with oxidant, thereby generating thermal energy and fumes, heating the furnace with a first part of the thermal energy generated in step a, evacuating the generated fumes from the furnace at a temperatu...