US Patent Issued to Owens-Brockway Glass Container on March 18 for "System for preheating glass melting furnace batch materials" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,430, issued on March 18, was assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. (Perrysburg, Ohio).

"System for preheating glass melting furnace batch materials" was invented by Carl L. Fayerweather (Maumee, Ohio), Dale A. Gaerke (Perrysburg, Ohio) and Robert Roth (Fremont, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for preheating batch materials in a glass melting furnace includes: a preheater configured to receive unheated batch materials and to deliver heated batch materials, the preheater including an outlet configured to exhaust fluid from the preheater and an inlet configured to receive exhaust fluid from the glass melting furn...