ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,346, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nordson Corp. (Westlake, Ohio).
"Pelletizing apparatus for the production of polymer pellets" was invented by Hubert Heinrich (Munster, Germany) and Dirk Schlief (Munster, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pelletizing apparatus includes a filter device connected with a melt feed, a granulator downstream of the filter device, particularly an underwater granulator, a water treatment device, and a control means for controlling the filter device, underwater granulator, and water treatment device and adapted to provide at least one control parameter. The apparatus includes at least one machin...