ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,186, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Beverage filling system and cip processing method" was invented by Atsushi Hayakawa (Tokyo) and Takaharu Hirooka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage filling system for filling a container with a carbonated beverage includes beverage supply piping that supplies the carbonated beverage, a beverage filling machine that is coupled to the beverage supply piping, and a controller that controls the beverage filling system. The beverage filling machine includes a filling nozzle and a beverage supply line, a counter gas line, and a snift line each of w...