US Patent Issued to Development Technologies on Oct. 6 for "System and method for substantially horizonal rotating reflux distillation apparatus" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,217, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Development Technologies LLC (Bothell, Wash.).

"System and method for substantially horizonal rotating reflux distillation apparatus" was invented by Daniel J. Terry (Bothell, Wash.), Nick Varela-Terry (Bothell, Wash.) and Christopher R. Starling (Monroe, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotatable, reflux distillation system is disclosed that includes a rotatable, reflux distillation column, a lower end transition pipe, an upper end transition pipe, a rotational drive assembly, and a vapor reduction system. The rotatable, reflux distillation column is angled between 10-20 degrees from horiz...