US Patent Issued to Lummus Technology on July 28 for "Hybrid furnace with fuel and/or electricity" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,446, issued on July 28, was assigned to Lummus Technology LLC (Houston).

"Hybrid furnace with fuel and/or electricity" was invented by Baozhong Zhao (Houston), Eduardo Hart (Houston), Stephen Stanley (Houston), Kandasamy Sundaram (Houston), Aijing Yin (Houston) and Xueping Li (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including a radiant heating section and a flue gas stack; one or more process coils disposed within the radiant heating section; one or more fuel-fired burners disposed within the radiant heating section, the one or more fuel-fired burners configured for combusting a fuel and producing the combustion gas; one ...