ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,098, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Cleaver-Brooks Co. Inc. (Thomasville, Ga.).

"Thermal efficiency system and method for boiler plant" was invented by Meenatchinathan Vasudevan (Lincoln, Neb.) and Dillon Gushard (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermal efficiency systems and methods are provided for installation and use in boiler plants. Thermal efficiency systems include a reservoir, a plurality of heat scavengers, a plurality of heat sinks, and a control system. Each heat scavenger can receive system fluid, extract excess heat from a heated plant fluid, and provide the extracted heat into the system fluid to c...