ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,295, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ARIES CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Inline particle size control for rotary drum drier recycle material" was invented by Renus Kelfkens (Franklin, Tenn.) and Mark Bauer (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to drying a wet coated seed material stream comprising an incoming wet granular biosolids stream mixed with a controlled size dried seed material recycling stream to produce a moist air and pellet stream, separating an uncontrolled size dried pellet stream from the moist air and pellet stream, diverting a recycle portion of the u...