ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,435, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to BlueSky IP LLC (Modesto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for processing juice" was invented by Dimple K Kundiyana (Modesto, Calif.), Nick Dokoozlian (Modesto, Calif.), Timothy Holt (Modesto, Calif.), Thomas Blair (Modesto, Calif.), Ravi Ponangi (Modesto, Calif.) and Leah Chapin (Modesto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method and a system for processing grapes. An example system includes a simulated moving bed (SMB) device configured to receive a feed stream and an eluent stream as inputs and provide an extract stream and a raffinate stream as outputs. The feed ...