US Patent Issued to TWC SYSTEMS on April 29 for "Apparatus and method for combating crops with a heated air flow" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,999, issued on April 29, was assigned to TWC SYSTEMS BV (Brussels).

"Apparatus and method for combating crops with a heated air flow" was invented by Marc Guy Polleunis (Kortenaken, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for combating crops with a heated air flow involve a gas burner unit that is only activated if the pressure, the flow rate or the rotational speed of the ventilator is greater than a determined threshold value; and the gas burner unit is again deactivated if the pressure, the flow rate or the rotational speed of the ventilator is less than the determined threshold value."

The patent was file...