US Patent Issued to ClearH2O on July 8 for "Methods of high throughput hydrocolloid bead production and apparatuses thereof" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,641, issued on July 8, was assigned to ClearH2O Inc. (Westbrooke, Maine).

"Methods of high throughput hydrocolloid bead production and apparatuses thereof" was invented by Jay Palmer (Brunswick, Maine) and Paul Dioli (Yarmouth, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating hydrocolloid beads includes forcing a hydrocolloid gel suspension through a plurality of nozzles, wherefrom the hydrocolloid gel forms into a plurality of gel drops and fall into a reactant bath. The drops are exposed to the reactant bath for a predetermined period of time, wherein the drops form firm or semi-firm beads as they remain in the reactant bat...