ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,211, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DHF AMERICA LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"System and method of decomposing fluidic product having particles" was invented by Kotaro Hirayama (Tokyo), Isamu Umeda (Tokyo) and Sojiro Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decomposing a fluidic product (110) having a plurality of particles (112) is disclosed. The method includes inductively heating the fluidic product (110) at a first predetermined temperature while flowing through a temperature rising portion (138) having a first heating region formed of at least one metal pipe (124) by using a first heating induction coil (134) surroun...