ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,922, issued on May 20, was assigned to thyssenkrupp Polysius GmbH (Beckum, Germany), Vicat SA (L'Isle-d'Abeau, France) and Dyckerhoff GMBH (Wiesbaden, Germany).

"Cooler for cooling bulk material, in particular cement clinker" was invented by Peter Rickert (Bad Sassendorf, Germany), Sebastian Morgenroth (Oelde, Germany), Ludwig Koenning (Ahlen, Germany), Karl Lampe (Ennigerloh, Germany), Michael Streffing (Lippetal, Germany), Eike Willms (Dortmund, Germany), Klaus Adler (Rheda-Wiedenbrueck, Germany) and Alex Schulze Bernd (Sendenhorst, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooler for cooling bulk material, in particular cement clin...