ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,535, issued on May 13, was assigned to Food Machinery Engineering, LMTD (Surrey, Canada).

"Pan cleaning brush module, controller and methods of same" was invented by Norman G. Schmidt (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an improved system, device and method for optimized, high volume cleaning of pans, related brush modules, and methods of operating and processing same A pan cleaning system having one or more modular swing arms for cleaning a flow of pans is provided. The system having a frame with a mounting point for each of the modular swing arms and the swing arm pivots about a pivoting element...