US Patent Issued to United Conveyor on June 2 for "Method and system for fine particulate removal and processing from a coal combustion residual surface impoundment" (Illinois, Ohio, Alabama, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,804, issued on June 2, was assigned to United Conveyor Corp. (Waukegan, Ill.).

"Method and system for fine particulate removal and processing from a coal combustion residual surface impoundment" was invented by Kevin McDonough (Highland Park, Ill.), Andrew Matthews (Long Grove, Ill.), Kevin Matyas (Lindenhurst, Ill.), Jack Ma (Inverness, Ill.), Joseph Woodley (Athens, Ala.), David Donkin (New Waterford, Ohio), Andrew Gross (Gurnee, Ill.), Mark Owens (Midlothian, Va.) and Morgan French (Hoover, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for removing a slurry from a surface impoundment to create a dewatered particulate cake...