US Patent Issued to PAUL WURTH, PAUL WURTH DEUTSCHLAND on March 17 for "Support assembly in a heat storage device" (Luxembourger, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,144, issued on March 17, was assigned to PAUL WURTH S.A. (Luxembourg) and PAUL WURTH DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Wiesbaden, Germany).

"Support assembly in a heat storage device" was invented by Christian De Gruiter (Bergem, Luxembourg), Manuel Kaufmann (Berbourg, Luxembourg), Patrick Hutmacher (Bettembourg, Luxembourg), Klaus Peter Kinzel (Luxembourg), Gilles Kass (Sanem, Luxembourg) and Stefan Thaler (Florsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat storage device such as a hot blast stove including a heat regeneration checkerwork made of checker bricks, the checkerwork being supported by a support assembly (16). In accordance with a...