US Patent Issued to thyssenkrupp Fertilizer Technology, thyssenkrupp on March 31 for "Fluid bed granulator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,375, issued on March 31, was assigned to thyssenkrupp Fertilizer Technology GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) and thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany).

"Fluid bed granulator" was invented by Matthias Potthoff (Dortmund, Germany) and Harald Franzrahe (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidized bed granulator for production of urea-containing or nitrate-containing granules may include a granulator interior having granulator interior walls with a first granulator side wall, a second granulator side wall, a granulator front wall that extends transversely to the granulator side walls, and a granulator back wall that likewise extends...