ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,610, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).
"Flexible transport auger" was invented by Daniel Thommen (Liestal, Switzerland), Joern Richter (Kandern, Germany), Salman Chegini (Bern, Switzerland), Joseph Peterson (South Dartmouth, Mass.), Michael J. O'Neil (West Barnstable, Mass.), Gabriel Emmett Greeley (Andover, Mass.), Matthew Brian De Nardo (Watertown, Mass.), Serge Cyril Roux (Boston), Ashley Lauren Whitney (Somerville, Mass.), John DeVincenzo (Braintree, Mass.) and Thomas Martin (Riverside, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible auger design for low-torque transmitting drive sh...