US Patent Issued to PIOVAN on June 16 for "Deodorization apparatus and method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,362, issued on June 16, was assigned to PIOVAN S.P.A. (Santa Maria di Sala, Italy).

"Deodorization apparatus and method" was invented by Enrico Bellio (Ponzano Veneto, Italy) and Davide Cappellini (Soncino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deodorization method and apparatus are disclosed to eliminate, reduce or correct the odour of incoherent plastics, i.e. in the form of granules and/or microgranules and/or powder and/or flakes or the like, with a container of the incoherent plastics, an actuator for generating a process gas flow from a gas inlet to a gas outlet of said container, an olfactory sensor arranged to detect odorous...