ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,907, issued on May 20, was assigned to SSI Shredding Systems Inc (Wilsonville, Ore.).

"Modular industrial reducing machine and method for disassembling an industrial reducing machine" was invented by Todd Sears (Wilsonville, Ore.), Thomas Garnier (Wilsonville, Ore.) and Michael Neunzert (Tigard, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular industrial reducing machine is provided. The reducing machine includes a removable cutting tray releasably coupled to a first and second axial endwalls in a base frame. Additionally, the removable cutting tray includes a plurality of non-rotating anvils designed to interact with a plurality of cut...