ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,375, issued on March 17, was assigned to MARKDOM INTERNATIONAL INC. (Toronto).

"Static mixer for blending fluids with melt" was invented by Changize Sadr (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A static homogenizing apparatus for blending a fluid additive with a polymer melt includes: (a) a homogenizing conduit; and (b) a plurality of homogenizing elements in the conduit for flow of the melted resin and fluid additive through the homogenizing elements in series. The plurality of homogenizing elements includes a plurality of mixing elements and at least one amplifier element. Each mixing element has a quantity of mixing channels pass...