US Patent Issued to Owens-Brockway Glass Container on March 25 for "Submerged combustion melting exhaust systems" (Ohio, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,289, issued on March 25, was assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. (Perrysburg, Ohio).

"Submerged combustion melting exhaust systems" was invented by Shane T. Rashley (Bowling Green, Ohio), Robert W. Kuhlman (Dundee, Mich.), Richard C. Gobrecht III (Toledo, Ohio), William Thomas (Toledo, Ohio) and Liming Shi (Perrysburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A submerged combustion melting system includes a furnace including a tank with a floor, a roof, a perimeter wall, and an interior, and burners to melt glass feedstock into molten glass, a batch inlet, a molten glass outlet, and an exhaust outlet. An exhaust system is in ...