ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,690, issued on June 9, was assigned to CICSA S.R.L. (Lecco, Italy).

"Method for the cooling and heat recovery from materials at very high temperature" was invented by Stefano Campanari (Lecco, Italy) and Marco Campanari (Lecco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the cooling of and heat recovery from materials at very high temperatures is disclosed. The method includes a) conveying material at very high temperature into a mixing system, b) transporting the material exiting the mixing system inside a continuous-flow channel, c) recovering heat from the transported material, d) feeding a flow of material exiting at low tem...