ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,684, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colo.).
"Biomass dehydration system" was invented by Morgan Defoort (Fort Collins, Colo.) and John Mizia (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include a biomass dehydration system including a wet biomass chamber containing wet biomass, a belt or chain defining one or more cavities, two or more pulleys including a drive pulley that the belt or chain extend around and that are configured such that the cavities are disposable within the wet biomass chamber as the belt or chain moves along the pulleys...