ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,421, issued on Aug. 5.
"System and method for four dimensionally separating materials" was invented by Thomas A. Valerio (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a separator for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream. The separator has a cyclone having a top section and a bottom section, an impeller within the cyclone, a media inlet for accepting a flow of media or a pulsating flow of the media operatively connected to the impeller in which media or fluid flows through the impeller into the separator; a first discharge passage for a collecting a light fraction, and a second discharge passage ...