ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,122, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ZEECO INC. (Broken Arrow, Okla.).

"Free-jet burner and method for low CO 2 , NO x , and CO emissions" was invented by Darton J Zink (Tulsa, Okla.), Rex K Isaacs (Collinsville, Okla.), Eric G Pratchard (Tulsa, Okla.), John Petersen (Pawnee, Okla.), Tim Kirk (Morris, Okla.), Austin White (Tulsa, Okla.) and Zach Chandler (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plugging resistant, highly stable free jet burner and method which provide Ultra-Low NOx emissions for any fuel using angular ejection, large ejection ports, auxiliary burner tips, and wide tip-to-tip spacing, and which also permit th...