ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,378, issued on March 17, was assigned to SANSO MIXING AB (Horby, Sweden).

"Outflow unit for mixer" was invented by Nemo Ivarsson (Enskede, Sweden) and Mats Andersson (Horby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes an outflow unit (1) for a mixer (2), said outflow unit (1) comprising multiple individual outflow grooves (3)."

The patent was filed on Aug. 14, 2020, under Application No. 17/631,976.

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