ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,569, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Continuous granulated metallic units production, and associated systems, devices, and methods" was invented by John Francis Quanci (Haddonfield, N.J.), John Michael Richardson (Devon, Pa.), Patrick James Mullarkey (Manhattan, Ill.), David James Schwake (Aurora, Ill.), Andrew Michael Butor (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Jonathan Hale Perkins (Lisle, Ill.) and Chun Wai Choi (Lisle, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for continuous granulated metallic unit (GMU) production, and associated devices and methods are disclosed herein. In som...