US Patent Issued to PAUL WURTH on Feb. 25 for "Method for protecting an inner wall of a shaft furnace" (Turkish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,047, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to PAUL WURTH S.A. (Luxembourg).

"Method for protecting an inner wall of a shaft furnace" was invented by Nicolas Maggioli (Thionville, France) and Esmer Mustafa (Samsun, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting an inner wall (12) of a shaft furnace, the method comprising the steps of: providing at least one injection device (28) through the inner wall (12) of the shaft furnace, the injection device (28) being configured to inject protective material into the shaft furnace; and injecting on demand the protective material into the shaft furnace through the injection device (28)...