ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,969, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to EvacuPak Inc. (Nampa, Idaho).
"Food grade product recovery system" was invented by Travis Nebeker (Middleton, Idaho) and Robert Byars (Nampa, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automated, hygienic recovery of fluid, food-grade product without it ever contacting the environment outside of its packaging, the system using one or more hygienic lances that pierce the product packaging and features, including in preferable embodiments a distending compression plate to force the product out of the packaging and/or a sanitary pumping system that initiates suction to draw the product out ...