ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,758, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BUHLER AG (Uzwil, Switzerland).

"Industrial extruder, process and method thereof" was invented by Christian Kern (Stuttgart, Germany), Jerome Oesch (Wil, Switzerland), Yi Chen (Wil, Switzerland), Richard Vonlanthen (Winterthur, Switzerland), Christoph Schill (Steckborn, Switzerland), William Robert Mitchell (Zurich, Switzerland) and Roman Kleiber (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is an industrial smart extruder and extrusion method, the industrial, intelligent extruder acting as a conveying device that uniformly squeeze solid to viscous masses out of a forming orifice u...