ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,825, issued on May 26, was assigned to Entek Manufacturing LLC (Lebanon, Ore.).
"Extruder vent flow sensor" was invented by Dean Justin Elliott (Albany, Ore.), Craig Allen Benjamin (Lebanon, Ore.), Stephen C. Gates (Yakima, Wash.) and Albert J. Bailey (Pine Bluff, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for mitigating vent flow into a vent attachment on an extruder vent of an extruder. The vent attachment has a vent attachment port configured to release gases from the extruder vent. The techniques include monitoring temperature via a temperature probe mounted at least partly inside an interior opening of the vent ...