US Patent Issued to ALI GROUP S.R.L.-CARPIGIANI on March 25 for "Method and apparatus for controlling the quality of food products and system for treating food products comprising the apparatus" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,757, issued on March 25, was assigned to ALI GROUP S.R.L.-CARPIGIANI (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for controlling the quality of food products and system for treating food products comprising the apparatus" was invented by Andrea Cocchi (Bologna, Italy), Federico Tassi (Bologna, Italy) and Roberto Lazzarini (Reggio Emilia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an apparatus for controlling the quality of a food product, including a quality control module, equipped with: at least one sensorized device, the sensorized device being adapted to detect at least one parameter regarding a property of a fo...