US Patent Issued to Canadian National Railway on Feb. 10 for "Device for dewatering and method of making same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,612, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canadian National Railway Co. (Montreal).

"Device for dewatering and method of making same" was invented by Seble Afework (Maple, Canada), Christina Chan (Vancouver, Canada) and Jill Lam (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a device for dewatering a material. The device comprises a biodegradable, permeable enclosure configured for receiving the material through an inlet. The permeable enclosure comprises layered biodegradable textiles, an inner portion and an outer portion, derived from renewable resources. The inner portion has an appare...