ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,670, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to IV-CONSULT B.V. (Papendrecht, Netherlands).
"Method of performing an operation on a vessel assembly, as well as a vessel assembly" was invented by Ricky De Jong (Papendrecht, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing an operation such as a maintenance operation on a vessel assembly, said vessel assembly having a vessel, such as a crystallizing vessel, a rotor, said rotor including an upright, rotatable shaft, said shaft having a top shaft section extending above a top wall of the vessel, to perform maintenance. The top shaft section includes a first member chosen from a ma...