US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 31 for "Adjustable screw conveyor for material processing" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,946, issued on March 31, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Adjustable screw conveyor for material processing" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Binoy Thomas (Kozhikode, India) and Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable screw conveyor includes a plurality of adjustable helical blades disposed in an enclosure having an inlet at a first end of the enclosure and an outlet at a second end of the enclosure, where the plurality of adjustable helical blades includes a first blade and a second blade. The adjustable screw conveyor further incl...