ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,057, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Flynn Burner Corp. (Mooresville, N.C.).
"Electric burner" was invented by Simon Walker (Mooresville, N.C.) and Jim M Sweeney (Mooresville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid tubular pipe burner has a lateral flame emitted from a slot in the tubular pipe burner, the tubular pipe burner being supplemented with the placement of spaced electric heaters disposed outside the pipe burner. The electric heaters run along the length of the pipe burner but are disposed such that they stand off and away from the surface of the pipe burner. The pipe burner is configured to allow for initial gas fi...