US Patent Issued to LMC Industrial Contractors on Dec. 9 for "Remediation of excavated pipe sections" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,543, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LMC Industrial Contractors Inc. (Dansville, N.Y.).

"Remediation of excavated pipe sections" was invented by Lawrence D. Mehlenbacher (Wayland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for removing a coating from an excavated pipe section includes impacting liquid jects against the coating and collecting a mixture of the liquid and debris of the removed coating. The mixture is subjected to active separation and passive separation to capture the debris, wherein the debris can be appropriately disposed."

The patent was filed on Feb. 14, 2024, under Application No. 18/441,429.

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