ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,116, issued on May 13.

"System for manufacturing fumed silica particles" was invented by Sandeep Gaikwad (Aurangabad, India), Ranjith Balakrishnan (Aurangabad, India) and Badri Gomatam (Aurangabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system for generating fumed silica particles for manufacturing of an optical fiber preform. The system includes a generator and a plurality of inlets connected with the generator. The generator includes a plurality of burners. The plurality of inlets include a first inlet, a second inlet, a third inlet and a fourth inlet. The first inlet provides passage for flow of a p...