US Patent Issued to EnWave on July 15 for "Vacuum chamber apparatus with single roller for rotating container" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,001, issued on July 15, was assigned to EnWave Corp. (Delta, Canada).

"Vacuum chamber apparatus with single roller for rotating container" was invented by Li Bing Cao (Delta, Canada), Jun Fu (Delta, Canada) and Noel Barker (Delta, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for providing a simpler and more robust mechanism for transporting materials to be dried through a vacuum microwave chamber in rotating containers. The apparatus (20) has a vacuum chamber (22), an input end (26) to introduce a container (24) into the chamber, and a discharge end (28) to remove the container. The container has spur gear teeth (60)...