ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. RE50,364, issued on April 8, was assigned to VMI Holland B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).
"Apparatus and method for dispensing solid substances" was invented by Ton de Boer (Epe, Netherlands), Gerrit Jan Scholten (Epe, Netherlands), Kees Jochemsen (Epe, Netherlands) and Pieter Cornelis Meijers (Epe, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for dispensing solid substances, wherein the apparatus comprises a feeder section with a plurality of feeder units, a collection section with a plurality of hoppers and a dispensing section, wherein the plurality of hoppers are rotatable with respect to the fee...