US Patent Issued to Amaterra on Oct. 20 for "Ballasted pigeage device system and method" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,910, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Amaterra LLC (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Ballasted pigeage device system and method" was invented by Matthew Richard Vuylsteke (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for gravity-assisted winemaking and other fermentation processes. In one example, a method may include using gravity to process grapes or a fermentate from a first upper location to a lower location and using a bridge crane to transfer the grapes or the fermentate to a second upper location to be further processed. In certain examples, the lower location may be located on a lower level of a building...