ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,280, issued on Oct. 7, 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) providing a heating chamber (28) and one or more combustion heating means (40a-f) for heating the contents of the heating chamber (28), the heating chamber (28) having an inlet (21) and an outlet (22), *b) feeding comminuted waste material through the inlet (21) and into the heating chamber (28); *c) heating the ...