US Patent Issued to Owens-Brockway Glass Container on June 16 for "Melting furnaces and charging of melting furnaces" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,052, issued on June 16, was assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. (Perrysburg, Ohio).

"Melting furnaces and charging of melting furnaces" was invented by Steven M. Will (Sylvania, Ohio), Kirk Holmes (Perrysburg, Ohio), Victor A. Plumbo II (Ventnor City, N.J.) and Karin Gabriela Bastarrachea (St Kilda, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feedstock charger includes a charger conduit and a feedstock conveyor rotatably and translatably carried in the charger conduit. According to a method of using the feedstock charger, feedstock is supplied to the feedstock conveyor of the feedstock charger, feedstock is allowed to fall...