US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on Sept. 16 for "Beverage filling system and CIP processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,713, issued on Sept. 16, 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 beverage includes: beverage supply piping that supplies the beverage; a beverage filling machine that is coupled to the beverage supply piping; CIP circulation piping that is coupled to the beverage filling machine, that feeds a cleaning liquid flowed out from the beverage filling machine during CIP processing toward the beverage supply piping, and t...