US Patent Issued to Apeel Technology on Jan. 20 for "Devices, systems, and methods for reducing microbial load during product coating" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,100, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apeel Technology Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for reducing microbial load during product coating" was invented by Ronald C. Bakus (Goleta, Calif.), Matthew Kahlscheuer (Goleta, Calif.), Gregory Faust (Goleta, Calif.), Louis Perez (Goleta, Calif.), Anuj Purohit (Goleta, Calif.), Krishnan Chari (Goleta, Calif.), Benjamin Gordon (Goleta, Calif.), Nicholas Feringa (Goleta, Calif.) and Doug Gotthard (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment system, including a conveyor bed configured to transport a plurality of products; a brushing device located along the c...