US Patent Issued to BENNINGHOVEN ZWEIGNIEDERLASSUNG DER WIRTGEN MINERAL TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 18 for "Apparatus and method for drying material and asphalt mixing facility having such an apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,118, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BENNINGHOVEN ZWEIGNIEDERLASSUNG DER WIRTGEN MINERAL TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Wittlich, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for drying material and asphalt mixing facility having such an apparatus" was invented by Marius Kloft (Wittlich, Germany), Dietmar Zimmer (Longkamp, Germany) and Steven Mac Nelly (Buchel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for drying material for an asphalt mixing facility includes a rotary kiln rotatably drivable about an axis of rotation, in which the material is dried, wherein the rotary kiln has a material inlet and a material outlet, a heating unit coupled to t...