ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,912, issued on April 21, was assigned to MAYEKAWA MFG. Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Cooling drum for freezing granules and rotary freezing device" was invented by Jun Miura (Tokyo), Masashi Kato (Tokyo), Masaaki Hanazaki (Tokyo), Hiroki Ito (Tokyo) and Toshikazu Sugiyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling drum for freezing granules has an inlet for receiving the granules and an outlet located opposite to the inlet for discharging the granules. The cooling drum for freezing granules includes: a first cylinder part having a first inner surface formed of a first material; and a second cylinder part located closer to the outlet than ...