ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,847, issued on May 6, was assigned to Bouldin Corp. (McMinnville, Tenn.).
"Infeed system for hydrolyzer" was invented by Rodrigo B. Vera (Leeds, Ala.), David C. Palmer (Franklin, Tenn.) and Terry L. Moore (Brentwood, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrolyzer infeed system for supplying waste material to a hydrolyzer in a continuous manner, the infeed system comprises an infeed chamber, an inlet gate separate a chamber inlet from a chamber outlet, a ram disposed to reciprocate within the infeed chamber and compress waste material against the inlet gate when the gate is in the closed position and configured to push the compress...