ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,000, issued on June 17, was assigned to VCycene Inc. (Markham, Canada).

"System and method for automatically generating organic compost from waste" was invented by Huayi Gao (Markham, Canada), Xiangdong Yin (King, Canada), Janusz Wielgosz (Toronto) and Ming Lam Timothy To (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are described herein for an apparatus that implements one or methods for producing compost. The method may include receiving waste in a composting apparatus, the waste having a first moisture content; pre-treating the waste to produce pre-treated waste; storing the pre-treated waste into a stora...