ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,408, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to New WinCup Holdings Inc. (Stone Mountain, Ga.).
"Monitoring system for straw manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Paul Daniel George Jr. (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Eli V. Whisnant (Stone Mountain, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for manufacturing compostable, biodegradable drink straws from polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) material are disclosed herein. Such apparatus may include a hopper that contains raw PHA material, an extruder that receives the raw PHA material from the hopper and produces extruded PHA material, one or more waters baths that cool the extruded PHA mat...