ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,621, issued on May 26, was assigned to ART-Envi Services GmbH & Co. KG (Karlsruhe, Germany).
"Closed, gastight system and method for gaining sellable petroleum coke pieces out of solidified petroleum coke in a coke drum unit" was invented by Rainer Hatzenbuehler (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closed, gastight system for gaining sellable petroleum coke pieces out of solidified petroleum coke in a coke drum unit, wherein the system is configured to be connected to a coke drum unit (X) containing solidified petroleum coke and comprises a coke crushing unit (C) for crushing the petroleum coke into sellable petroleum ...