ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,413, issued on May 6, was assigned to SIGNIFI SOLUTIONS INC. (Mississauga, Canada).
"Automatic bulk material dispensing system" was invented by Kris Dutkiewicz (Barrie, Canada), Richard Longo (Bradford, Canada), Yong Suk Jin (Oakville, Canada) and Shamira Jaffer (Mississauaga, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example bulk material dispensing apparatus includes: a frame; a hopper supported in the frame, the hopper configured to contain a bulk material for dispensing by the dispensing apparatus and having a hopper outlet; a feeding unit interconnected with the hopper outlet, the feeding unit configured to receive the bulk mater...