ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,948, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to UCL BUSINESS LTD (London).

"Particle processing" was invented by Victor Francia (London) and Marc-Olivier Coppens (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a gas-solid fluidized bed (130) includes-flowing a pulsating gas flow upwards through a bed of solid particles from a distributor (104) to cause a dynamically structured bubble flow (130), and processing particles using the fluidized bed."

The patent was filed on Oct. 11, 2021, under Application No. 18/248,609.

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