ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,186, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Flash drying apparatus and method of producing particles" was invented by Junya Asaoka (Shizuoka, Japan), Takeshi Tsujino (Shizuoka, Japan), Koki Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Shota Amano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masahiro Kobayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loop-type flash drying apparatus configured to dry an object to be treated with a gas by supplying the object into a gas stream circulating in a loop-type drying pipe, wherein the loop-type flash drying apparatus includes: (i) a loop-type drying pipe; (ii) a feeding port configured to feed an object to be treated i...