US Patent Issued to J. Spithoven Beheer on June 17 for "Device and method for separating elongate magnetizable objects by length" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,169, issued on June 17, was assigned to J. Spithoven Beheer B.V. (Eersel, Netherlands).

"Device and method for separating elongate magnetizable objects by length" was invented by Johannes Antonius Spithoven (Eersel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for separating elongate magnetizable objects from a material stream by length. The device includes a magnetic field, which magnetic field is homogeneous in a field zone; a transport device with a transport surface for carrying the material stream through the field zone in a transport direction, wherein the field direction in the field zone is ori...