ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,281, issued on April 15, was assigned to Clean Crop Technologies Inc. (Holyoke, Mass.).
"System and method for treatment of food with a gas" was invented by Daniel White (Chesterfield, Mass.), Yaqoot Shaharyar (Northampton, Mass.), Kevin Keener (Ashland, Ohio) and Daniel Cavanaugh (Hadley, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for treating food, the system including: a direct barrier discharge system including a pair of electrodes separated by a gap of at least 0.5 cm, wherein the direct barrier discharge system is configured to provide a feed gas between the electrodes, wherein the feed gas includes nitrogen and water, wherei...