ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,703, issued on March 18, was assigned to NETZCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbH (Selb, Germany).
"Agitator mill" was invented by Udo Enderle (Arzberg, Germany), Thomas Goller (Schwarzenbach/Saale, Germany), Holger Moschl (Selb, Germany), Witali Sudermann (Marktredwitz, Germany) and Lars-Peter Weiland (Schonwald, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agitator mill including a grinding chamber containing grinding bodies and an agitator shaft, which revolves therein around a horizontal axis and which supports several grinding disks, which are connected thereto and which are spaced apart from one another in the direction of the horizontal axis...