ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,705, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Starlinger & Co Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Vienna).
"Device and method for extruding plastic" was invented by Christian Lovranich (Weissenbach an der Triesting, Austria), Andreas Pechhacker (Altenmarkt, Austria) and Dominic Stangl (Biedermannsdorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method for extruding plastics, comprising an extruder screw, a housing with a cavity, a drive unit for rotatably driving the extruder screw, a heating element arranged on the housing alongside the extruder screw, a filling unit through which shredded plastic can be supplied into the cavity, and a fill...