ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,640, issued on July 8, was assigned to STAMICARBON B.V (Sittard, Netherlands) and MACHINEFABRIEK KREBER B.V. (Vlaardingen, Netherlands).
"Apparatus for producing prills" was invented by Paulus Johannes Nicolaas Dits (Oosterhout, Netherlands) and Marcus Wilhelmus Maria Groenewegen (Rotterdam, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for producing prills includes a hollow body rotatable about a first axis, the body having a wall rotationally symmetrical around the first axis forming an interior space, the wall including nozzles for generating jets of liquid in a radially outward direction with respect to the first axis wh...