ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,971, issued on April 22, was assigned to Fydec Holding SA (Ecublens, Switzerland).
"High containment discharge station" was invented by Frederic Dietrich Jr. (Morrens, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discharging apparatus for discharging loose and in particular pulverulent material that is hazardous to health from rigid or flexible containers (12), in particular bags and barrels (13), comprising a discharge chamber (2) which has a discharge opening (5) for discharging the material after removal from a container (12) and which additionally has an insertion opening (3) for at least partial insertion of a container (12) into...