ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,057, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).
"Method of configuring air accelerator" was invented by Dwight D. Williams (Powhatan, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes first configuring a first cross-sectional flow area of a throat within a first air accelerator to discharge a target quantity of a particulate material, the first air accelerator including a body and an adjustable member, an interior surface of the body defining a cavity containing the adjustable member, the throat being at an air outlet of a chamber defined between the body and the adjustable member, the throat ...