ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,749, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ACOUSTIC EXTRA FREEZING OY (Helsinki).
"Device and method for controllable growth of crystals in a process of freezing" was invented by Dmitry Balabolin (Helsinki), Andrey Pechurin (Helsinki), Igor Klimashevsky (Helsinki) and Anna Makarova (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controllable growth of ice crystals inside an organic object during freezing, the device comprising at least one transducer, a control unit, a power supply and a modulator, wherein the control unit causes a plurality of types of magnetic fields to be emitted, by the at least one transducer, in a cyclical man...