ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,872, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Power Flame Inc. (Parsons, Kan.).
"High efficiency low NOx burner" was invented by David Scott Neff (Parsons, Kan.), Michael Ryan Martinie (McCune, Kan.), Michael Joseph Purdon (Independence, Kan.), Lee Edward Head (Parsons, Kan.), James Edward Clemens (McCune, Kan.), Ryan Matthew Pemberton (Parsons, Kan.) and Cody J. Maloney (Independence, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A burner having an air intake, a premix manifold, a blast tube, a rich fuel manifold, and a pilot. The blast tube includes a diffuser, an auxiliary passage, and a shutter. The shutter has at least an open position allowing a...