US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER on Dec. 16 for "Melting vitrifiable material with a biomass-type fuel" (Romanian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,322, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER (Courbevoie, France).

"Melting vitrifiable material with a biomass-type fuel" was invented by Antoine Guillet (Paris) and Alexandru Vlad (Ploiesti-Prahova, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixture of biomass and vitrifiable raw material for introducing into a fuel combustion furnace for the melting of a vitrifiable inorganic material, such as glass or rock or a silicate, includes an oleaginous biomass, the use of which reduces the damage to the equipment for metering and transporting the vitrifiable raw material."

The patent was filed on Jan. 14, 2021, under Applica...