ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,173, issued on June 16, was assigned to Buhler AG (Uzwil, Switzerland).

"Roll frame with improved product collection" was invented by Daniel Mark (Wil, Switzerland), Daniel Rickenbach (Wittenwil, Switzerland), Stefan Salzmann (Rapperswil, Switzerland), Daniel Doerig (Frauenfeld, Switzerland) and Beno Chialina (Henau, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a roll frame, comprising a product inlet, a grinding chamber with grinding rolls, into which grinding chamber bulk material to be ground can pass from the product inlet, and a product outlet unit which is arranged below the grinding chamber and i...