US Patent Issued to Glatt on Sept. 15 for "Fluidizing apparatus for the treatment of particulate material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,496, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Glatt GmbH (Binzen, Germany).

"Fluidizing apparatus for the treatment of particulate material" was invented by Jochen Thies (Lorrach, Germany), Dirk Zimmermann (Wehr, Germany) and Heinz Gottschling (Weil am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidizing apparatus for the treatment of particulate material. The fluidizing apparatus includes a fluidization unit which has a longitudinal axis and a perforated distributor plate which divides the fluidization unit into a distributor chamber and a fluidization chamber arranged above the distributor chamber. The distributor chamber include...