ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,316, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BONALS TECHNOLOGIES (Saint Just Saint Rambert, France).

"System, assembly and method for separating a flow of tablets compacted by a compacting device" was invented by Palmier Herve (Essertines en Chatelneuf, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method separate flow of tablets compacted by a compacting device. The separating system includes an input line to recover a flow of tablets at the output of the compacting device and two output lines to eject tablets from the separating system. A device accumulates tablets positioned between the input line and the output lines and periodic...