US Patent Issued to The Maitland on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for segregating into dual waste streams oxidizable catalyst material from inert support media" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,499, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Maitland Co. LLC (Sumter, S.C.).

"Systems and methods for segregating into dual waste streams oxidizable catalyst material from inert support media" was invented by Carlos Valdez (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for disposing of a mixture of oxidizable catalyst material and inert support media. The method comprises introducing inert gas into an enclosure. The enclosure contains a plurality of stacked screens, the stacked screens have openings that decrease in size from a top of the stack to a bottom of the stack. The method also comprises introducing the mixture to an up...