ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,420, issued on May 27, was assigned to NextGen Organics Inc. (Port Orchard, Wash.).
"System and method for vertically-oriented composting" was invented by Jeffrey West (Port Orchard, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for vertically-oriented, modular, automated, emissions-controlled composting. In an embodiment, the system and method involve construction of a vertically-oriented set of composting modules comprising a receiving and offloading level, one or more composting bay levels, a feedstock staging level, a biofilter level, a vertical conveyor for uploading feedstock to the feedstock staging level, a freight...