ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,982, issued on March 3, was assigned to SACMI COOPERATIVA MECCANICI IMOLA SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA (Imola, Italy).

"Compacting machine and plant for manufacturing ceramic articles" was invented by Andrea Valli (Imola, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant for manufacturing ceramic articles comprising two feeding devices, each of which is configured to contain a powder material of a respective type and feed this powder material to a conveyor assembly. The plant further comprises an operating device, which is configured to allow the powder material to exit selectively from zones of the feeding devices arranged in succession crosswis...