ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,602, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kleemann GmbH (Goppingen, Germany).

"Mobile rock processing apparatus with improved planning of a discontinuous material feed" was invented by Tobias Bockle (Weinstadt, Germany) and Thomas Kuhnle (Kirchheim / Teck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rock processing apparatus is provided for crushing and/or sorting granular mineral material according to size. The rock processing apparatus comprises a material feeding apparatus including a material buffer, at least one working unit of at least one crushing apparatus and at least one screening apparatus, at least one conveyor apparatus for c...