US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Allied Mineral Products on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for high temperature bulk solid storage and handling" (New Mexico, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,135, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Allied Mineral Products Inc. (Columbus, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for high temperature bulk solid storage and handling" was invented by Clifford K. Ho (Albuquerque, N.M.), Kevin Albrecht (Albuquerque, N.M.), Jeremy Niko I. Sment (Albuquerque, N.M.), Joshua M. Christian (Albuquerque, N.M.), Timothy A. Harvey (Columbus, Ohio) and Matthew Lambert (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed that minimize erosion within a high-temperature storage bin by using particle-on-particle fl...