ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,520, issued on March 25, was assigned to EBARA ENVIRONMENTAL PLANT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pyrolysis apparatus and pyrolysis method" was invented by Takashi Fujiwara (Tokyo) and Takayuki Ihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pyrolysis apparatus includes a fluid bed furnace (1), a first partition wall (11) dividing inside of the fluid bed furnace (1) into a pyrolysis chamber (4) and a combustion chamber (5), a second partition wall (12) dividing the combustion chamber (5) into a main combustion chamber (6) and a settling combustion chamber (7), a first gas diffuser (15), a second gas diffuser (25), and a third gas diffuser (35) ...