ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,463, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. (Perrysburg, Ohio).
"Bulk material discharging" was invented by Kirk Holmes (Perrysburg, Ohio), Steven Will (Sylvania, Ohio), Manfred Robert Romstock (Freudenberg, Germany) and Guenther Josef Mlynar (Wertheim-Bettingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bulk material discharging system includes a transmission station including a transmitting vessel having a transmitting vessel inlet configured to receive bulk material from an outlet of a bulk material transporter, and a transmitting vessel outlet to transmit bulk material therefrom. The system also inc...