ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,994, issued on June 10, was assigned to Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway).

"Stripper with bottom chamber" was invented by Lino Giovanni Porro (Etterbeek, Belgium) and Adrian Bynes (Wondelgem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bottom chamber of a stripper (or bottom liquid holder) including a vortex breaker, a blocking plate and a guiding plate. A stripper, a urea HP stripper, a urea plant, a method for operating a stripper and a method for producing a solid, particulate urea-based composition."

The patent was filed on Oct. 8, 2021, under Application No. 18/025,758.

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