US Patent Issued to STAMICARBON on June 17 for "Fluidized bed granulation" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,131, issued on June 17, was assigned to STAMICARBON B.V. (Sittard, Netherlands).

"Fluidized bed granulation" was invented by Barbara Cucchiella (Gulpen, Netherlands) and Juan Gonzalez Coloma (Maastricht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure pertains to a fluidized bed granulation process, for instance for urea melt. An embodiment of the process comprises providing a fluidized bed of the particles in a granulation compartment of the fluidized bed granulator; forming a film of the granulation liquid in the form of a hollow conical frustum projecting into the granulation compartment by supplying the granulation liqu...