US Patent Issued to Clean Safer Systems on Nov. 4 for "Internal clean-in-place method and apparatus" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,040, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Clean Safer Systems LLC (Victor, N.Y.).

"Internal clean-in-place method and apparatus" was invented by Robert Tuchrelo (Williamson, N.Y.), Nathan E. Smith (Hamlin, N.Y.) and Richard T. Aab (Fairport, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Clean in Place assembly for a food processor includes a self-cleaning valve assembly, wherein the self-cleaning valve assembly is in fluid communication with a food flow path in the food processor. The self-cleaning valve assembly includes a valve receiving chamber and valve configured to selectively fluidly connect a food flow path inlet port to a food flow path...