ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 7 -- Astec Industries, Chattanooga, Tennessee, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,495,381, initially filed March 2, 2017) developed by two co-inventors for an "aggregate dryer with exhaust quenching system." The co-inventors are Michael Christopher Varner, East Ridge, Tennessee, and Ted Jonas Hope III, Rock Spring, Georgia.

The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPT . . .