ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,260, issued on March 31, was assigned to Drax Biomass Inc. (Monroe, La.).
"Biomass processing" was invented by Ricardo Hillmann (Monroe, La.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for producing biomass pellets. Biomass pieces are received in a sizing stage and the biomass pieces are processed in the sizing stage to reduce their average size. Moisture is driven off moisture from the biomass in a drying stage. The biomass is compressed to form pellets in a pelletizing stage. After the drying stage, there is no further active reduction in the average size of the biomass pieces."
The patent was filed on Feb....