US Patent Issued to Superior Industries on April 1 for "Aggregate washing systems, methods, and apparatus" (Indiana, Florida, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,486, issued on April 1, was assigned to Superior Industries Inc. (Morris, Minn.).

"Aggregate washing systems, methods, and apparatus" was invented by John Rodriquez (Nokomis, Fla.), Shane Hanson (Columbus, Neb.) and John Bennington (Indianola, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of washing aggregate material, the method comprising: receiving aggregate material in a tank; receiving water in said tank; by at least a rear wall of said tank, retaining said aggregate material and water in a rearward portion of said tank and preventing said water and aggregate material from overflowing said rear wall; agitating said aggregate mate...