ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,683, issued on June 9, was assigned to GEA Processing Engineering A/S (Soborg, Denmark).

"Spray drying plant operator training system" was invented by Michael Muehlpfordt (Ettlingen, Germany), Andreas Frank (Ettlingen, Germany), Marko Savic (Sarstedt, Germany), Henrik Schwartzbach (Soborg, Denmark), Christian Hirschen (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Lars Voigt (Soborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training an operator of a spray drying plant, the spray drying plant including a plurality of plant elements including pre-processing elements, a spray drying element, post-processing elements, powder recovery elements, and ...