US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO on July 14 for "Furnace for cracking hydrocarbons and method of operation therefor" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,030, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Furnace for cracking hydrocarbons and method of operation therefor" was invented by Moulay El Hassan Tijani ('s Gravenhage, Netherlands), Herman Albert Zondag ('s Gravenhage, Netherlands) and Yvonne Christine Van Delft ('s Gravenhage, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furnace configured for cracking hydrocarbons includes a furnace internal volume and one or more tubes; the internal volume includes at least a high temperature volume and is arranged with a heat source configured f...