US Patent Issued to MSM MILLING on Sept. 22 for "Oil-bearing material extraction device and system" (British, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,435, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MSM MILLING PTY LTD (Manidra, Australia).

"Oil-bearing material extraction device and system" was invented by Peter Mac Smith (Manildra, Australia) and Marcio Novaes (Lisburn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A commercial-scale oil-bearing material expeller press having an oil-bearing material inlet, an oil-bearing material press cake outlet and an oil outlet in a temperature-controlled barrel; said barrel housing a compression screw; said compression screw having a central shaft and a plurality of continuous or discontinuous screw flights wherein there are one or more compression...