US Patent Issued to BMA BRAUNSCHWEIGISCHE MASCHINENBAUANSTALT on June 24 for "Cooling crystallizer and sugar crystallization method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,499, issued on June 24, was assigned to BMA BRAUNSCHWEIGISCHE MASCHINENBAUANSTALT AG (Braunschweig, Germany).

"Cooling crystallizer and sugar crystallization method" was invented by Andreas Lehnberger (Braunschweig, Germany), Jorg Schmidt (Salem, Germany) and Folker Aljets (Salzgitter, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cooling crystallizer (2.0) for saccharose magma in a vertically oriented container (2.1) which has an upper inlet (2.2) for supplying magma and a lower outlet (2.3) for discharging magma, comprising multiple cooling blocks (5.0) which are mutually spaced in a vertical direction. A heat c...