US Patent Issued to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE on April 15 for "Method and system for extracting an oil from an oil-containing raw material" (Danish, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,913, issued on April 15, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and system for extracting an oil from an oil-containing raw material" was invented by Bent Sarup (Fredensborg, Denmark) and Giacomo Costagli (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and system of extracting an oil from an oil-containing raw material comprising the steps of providing a non-crushed oil-containing raw material, and treating the non-crushed oil-containing raw material. The treatment is performed by exposing the oil-containing raw material to vacuum, wherein the vacuum defines an absolute pressure...