ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,763, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Phiston Technologies Inc. (Miramar, Fla.).
"Shredder centrifugal separator" was invented by M. Ali Ebadian (Miramar, Fla.), Raul Travieso (Miramar, Fla.) and Alejandro Paya (Miramar, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal separator system separates particulate matter from an air stream produced by an industrial shredding machine. The system includes a housing having a cylindrical conical shape defining an interior chamber. An inlet positioned tangentially near the top of the housing introduces an air and particle mixture to create a vortex flow that centrifugally displaces heavier pa...