ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,202, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bouldin Corp. (Morrision, Tenn.).

"Process of transforming waste material into useful material" was invented by David C. Palmer (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a process for transforming waste material into useful material, a quantity of waste material such as household garbage or municipal solid waste is provided. The waste material is pre-shredded into pre-shredded waste material. The pre-shredded waste material is processed to at least partially remove one or more selected material components, thereby providing a processed pre-shredded waste material. The processed pre-shr...