ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,213, issued on June 23, was assigned to TRUYOINS S.R.L. (Treviso, Italy) and MATERIAL HANDLING TECHNOLOGY S.R.L. (Venice, Italy).

"Cooling apparatus" was invented by Franco Carlesso (Treviso, Italy) and Edoardo Pizzato (Treviso, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for cooling a material includes: at least one reactor, substantially tubular, which is rotatable and which includes a rotating tubular structure defining inside it a chamber for receiving and passing through the material to be cooled; and means for indirectly cooling the material passing through said chamber by means of a cooling fluid, the means for indirect ...