US Patent Issued to GEBR. PFEIFFER on July 29 for "Grinding method and system with material inlet detection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,556, issued on July 29, was assigned to GEBR. PFEIFFER SE (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

"Grinding method and system with material inlet detection" was invented by Mathias Dulfer (Lahntal, Germany), Saskia Kuner (Carlsberg, Germany) and Florian Tanzmann (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for grinding feed material (1) in the form of particulate bulk material is disclosed. In the process, particle sizes of the feed material (1) are detected, and the feed material (1) is ground in a mill (3) on the basis of at least one manipulated variable. The at least one manipulated variable is modified when the proportion...