ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,659, issued on April 14, was assigned to Messer Austria GmbH (Gumpoldskirchen, Austria).
"Method for heating molten glass" was invented by Martin Demuth (Guntramsdorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for heating flowable molten glass in a feed channel which is enclosed by lateral walls and a cover and into which a plurality of fuel lances and oxidizing agent lances that are mutually spaced in the flow direction of the molten glass open above the molten glass, fuel or an oxidizing agent being supplied through said lances and being brought into reaction with each other in the feed channel. The ...