ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,213, issued on April 8, was assigned to J.C. Ford Co. (Columbia, Tenn.).
"Oven with improved burner assembly" was invented by Scott D. Ruhe (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Hiral Joshi (Tustin Ranch, Calif.), Donovann Rodgers (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Paul Winocur (Lake Forest, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-deck burner assembly for a conveyor-type oven can include a central manifold feeding fuel to upstream and downstream arrays of burners. Other burner assemblies can include pilot burners disposed at approximately a midway point along a longitudinal direction of the burners, thereby enabling the use of longer burners, and th...