US Patent Issued to Ocean Cleaner on March 4 for "Systems, apparatus and methods capable of collecting and processing floating solid materials" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,216, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ocean Cleaner LLC (Orange, Texas).

"Systems, apparatus and methods capable of collecting and processing floating solid materials" was invented by Russell S. Covington (Orange, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods capable of processing floating solid materials recovered from a body of water on a vessel are disclosed. In some embodiments, at least first and second debris processors are provided. The first debris processor may be disposed on the vessel between at least one intake opening and at least one discharge port, both of which are fluidly coupled to at least one chamber ...