ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,520, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Food Process Engineering Pty Ltd (Research, Australia).
"Milling device and process" was invented by Axel Guenther Andre (Croydon, Australia) and Bryant Hedley Ham (Research, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milling device includes a housing having a flow path for conveying feed material through the housing, and a spindle extending into the housing and mounted on bearings that are at least partly shielded from the flow path. A rotor is disposed on the spindle and has two or more blades for impacting the feed material and for driving the feed material about the housing to cause autogen...