ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,304, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Kleemann GmbH (Goppingen, Germany).

"Processing plant" was invented by Monika Wagner (Rechberghausen, Germany) and Benjamin Kazmaier (Owen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing plant includes a screen unit for screening out processing material, which can be routed to the screen unit from a crusher unit. The screen unit includes at least one screen deck and a discharge area via which the processing material exits the screen unit. A transfer belt located in a working position is disposed in the discharge area to receive processing material from the screen unit. To simplify maintena...