US Patent Issued to FURNO MATERIALS on June 10 for "Systems, methods and devices for cement manufacture" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,671, issued on June 10, was assigned to FURNO MATERIALS INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems, methods and devices for cement manufacture" was invented by Gurinder Nagra (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High temperature furnaces, calcining, pyrolysis and other high temperature manufacturing processes, composition rearrangements, and equipment. Systems, equipment and processes using oxyfuel combustion using gaseous fuels for cement manufacture. Reactor furnaces using oxyfuel containing natural gas and gravity feed to process pellets forming a pellet bed into cement."

The patent was filed on July 23, 2021, under Applicat...