ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,422, issued on April 15, was assigned to ORKLI, S.COOP. (Ordizia, Spain).
"Thermoelectric safety assembly" was invented by Andoni Unanue Imaz (Idiazabal, Spain), Mikel Arizmendi Zurutuza (Ordizia, Spain), Juan Herzog Delgado (Ordizia, Spain) and Marcos Pablo Curto (Hernani, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoelectric safety assembly that includes a thermocouple configured to detect a flame in a burner and, in response to detecting the flame, generating an electrical voltage. The assembly includes an electromagnetic valve electrically connected to the thermocouple, and a transistor electrically connected between the thermocou...