ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,407, issued on April 22, was assigned to POWERHOUSE ENERGY GROUP PLC (Bridgend, Great Britain).
"Method and apparatus for the treatment of waste material" was invented by David Ryan (Bridgend, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for treating comminuted waste material the method comprising: *a) heating comminuted waste material in a heating chamber (28) using one or more heating means (40a-f) to generate a combustible gas *b) measuring or determining the temperature in the heating chamber; *c) comparing the measured or determined temperature in the heating chamber (28) with a predetermined temperature...