US Patent Issued to American Peat Technology on Jan. 13 for "Mechanical demoisturizing of partially-decomposed organic material" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,651, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to American Peat Technology LLC (Aitkin, Minn.).

"Mechanical demoisturizing of partially-decomposed organic material" was invented by Douglas A. Green (Crosby, Minn.) and David L. Schaeffer (Brainerd, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the preparation of a concentrated filter cake from an admixture of partially-decomposed organic material and a polar liquid using a filter press without the input of thermal heat or superheated steam or other pressurized gas or liquid is provided by this invention. The admixture is mixed with an additional amount of the polar liquid to produce a feed...