US Patent Issued to Owens-Brockway Glass Container on Sept. 2 for "Bulk material receiving, conveying, storing, and dispensing" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,091, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. (Perrysburg, Ohio).

"Bulk material receiving, conveying, storing, and dispensing" was invented by Kirk Holmes (Perrysburg, Ohio), Steven Will (Sylvania, 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 system includes a majors material handling system including bulk material storage modules and bulk material dispensing modules. The dispensing modules include bulk material dosing assemblies and docking assemblies. A bulk material handling method ...