US Patent Issued to Owens-Brockway Glass Container on May 6 for "Bulk material handling methods, systems, subsystems, and apparatuses" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,410, issued on May 6, was assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. (Perrysburg, Ohio).

"Bulk material handling methods, systems, subsystems, and apparatuses" was invented by Philip J. Rausch (Perrysburg, Ohio), Kirk Holmes (Perrysburg, Ohio), Karin Gabriela Bastarrachea (Perrysburg, Ohio), Steven Will (Sylvania, Ohio), Roger Smith (Perrysburg, Ohio), Manfred Robert Romstock (Freudenberg, Germany) and Guenther Josef Mlynar (Wertheim-Bettingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bulk material handling method includes: a) receiving and pneumatically conveying bulk material via pressurized dilute phase, dense phase, and/or h...