US Patent Issued to Glatt on Jan. 13 for "Method for treating particulate material in a fluidizing device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,687, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Glatt GmbH (Binzen, Germany).

"Method for treating particulate material in a fluidizing device" was invented by Dirk Zimmermann (Wehr, Germany), Heinz Gottschling (Weil am Rhein, Germany) and Jochen Thies (Lorrach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating particulate material in a fluidizing device. The fluidizing device includes a fluidizing unit having a perforated distributor plate dividing the fluidizing unit into a distributor chamber and a fluidizing chamber. The fluidizing chamber includes a material inlet and the distributor chamber includes a material discharge. In ...