US Patent Issued to Food Machinery Engineering, LMTD on July 15 for "Pan cleaning machine and a method of operating the machine to clean pans" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,145, issued on July 15, was assigned to Food Machinery Engineering, LMTD (Surrey, Canada).

"Pan cleaning machine and a method of operating the machine to clean pans" was invented by Norman Schmidt (Denman Island, Canada) and Orlando Janzen (Mission, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to an improved pan cleaning machine that has a cleaning section that comprises a plurality of frames for mounting a sequence of interchangeable modular cleaning mechanisms. It can include quick-release mounting arrangements so that cleaning mechanisms can be quickly changed for cleaning different types of pans or to replace b...