US Patent Issued to APROTEK on March 17 for "Drying composition to facilitate the transportation of salty sludge" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,139, issued on March 17, was assigned to APROTEK (Saint Romain le Puy, France).

"Drying composition to facilitate the transportation of salty sludge" was invented by Stephane Delheur (Saint Marcellin en Forez, France) and Christian Chapelle (Andrezieux Boutheon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the technical field of treating urban and industrial saline sludges in general and more specifically the "conditioning" thereof before it is removed through the appropriate channels. The drying composition of the invention makes it possible to easily transport and store saline sludges, namely all sludges ...