ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,427, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).
"System and method for monitoring and controlling furnaces" was invented by Peter Vankampen (Shanghai), Dmitriy Chalenko (Kyiv, Ukraine), Manoj Gangadharan (New Delhi), Maxim Misyura (Moscow) and Laurent Kepinski (Cracow, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furnace monitoring system for monitoring a furnace over a span of time during furnace operation, including a thermal imaging apparatus, the apparatus is disposed outside of the furnace and at a distance from the exterior of the furnace to ge...