US Patent Issued to BATTENFELD-CINCINNATI GERMANY on Feb. 17 for "Planetary roller extruder for processing biodegradable materials and method for cleaning the planetary roller extruder" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,080, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BATTENFELD-CINCINNATI GERMANY GMBH (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany).

"Planetary roller extruder for processing biodegradable materials and method for cleaning the planetary roller extruder" was invented by Thomas Gesper (Delbrueck, Germany), Heinrich Dohmann (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany) and Michael Kaiser (Herford, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planetary roller extruder for homogenizing, dispersing, pasteurizing, and purposefully controlling the temperature of biodegradable materials that are prone to altering their properties during processing, in particular the properties that rule out furth...