US Patent Issued to Colorado State University Research Foundation on Jan. 13 for "Combustion system for solid biomass fuel" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,372, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Combustion system for solid biomass fuel" was invented by John Mizia (Fort Collins, Colo.), Maxwell Jerome Flagge (Loveland, Colo.) and Jason Boyd Golly (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include a combustor system including an inner wall, a fuel grate, an ash grinder, an igniter, and a fan. The inner wall defines a combustion chamber and has a longitudinal axis and first and second ends. The inner wall defines primary and secondary air inlets. The primary air inlets are defined closer...