US Patent Issued on March 18 for "In solution phase change pressurizing apparatus and method of manufacture / use thereof" (California, Maine, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,052, issued on March 18.

"In solution phase change pressurizing apparatus and method of manufacture / use thereof" was invented by W. Davis Lee (Rockport, Maine), Warren R. Kirsch (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Christian T. Metcalfe (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention comprises a method and apparatus for infusing a product component, comprising the steps of: placing the product component into a container; positioning into the product component an expansion agent, the expansion agent comprising at least one of a liquid form and a solid form; pressure sealing the container; forming, through a phase change of th...