US Patent Issued to NIRON MAGNETICS on Dec. 2 for "Magnetic field particle confinement in rotary tube furnace" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,396, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NIRON MAGNETICS INC. (Minneapolis).

"Magnetic field particle confinement in rotary tube furnace" was invented by Richard W. Greger (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a rotary tube furnace configured to facilitate a chemical reaction between a solid mass and a gas in the furnace. The rotary tube furnace may comprise a reaction chamber extending through the furnace, the reaction chamber configured to control ingress and egress of each of the solid mass and the gas in the reaction chamber; a passage way configured to supply the solid mass to the reaction chamber; a...