US Patent Issued to SHELL USA on Sept. 22 for "Electrically heated apparatus" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,259, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SHELL USA INC. (Houston).

"Electrically heated apparatus" was invented by Govert Gerardus Pieter Van der Ploeg (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an electrically heated apparatus (1), at least comprising: -an electrically heated furnace (2) having a roof (2A) and walls defining a space (3); -at least one tube (10) miming through the space (3), wherein the at least one tube (10) has an inlet (11) and an outlet (12) outside of the space (3); -electrical radiative heating elements (20) located in the space (3), which heating elements (20) can heat the at lea...