US Patent Issued to Continuum Powders on March 25 for "Powder feeder system and method for recycling metal powder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,185, issued on March 25, was assigned to Continuum Powders Corp. (Coverdale, Calif.).

"Powder feeder system and method for recycling metal powder" was invented by Paul Meese (Healdsburg, Calif.), Matthew Charles (Cloverdale, Calif.), Sonia Zacher (Cloverdale, Calif.) and Daniel Mendez (Healdsburg, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder feeder system for a foundry system having a mixing hearth includes a housing assembly, and a feeder assembly in the housing assembly having a moveable barrel feeder for feeding a pre-weighed charge of metal powder into the mixing hearth of the foundry system during operation thereof. A method ...