US Patent Issued to GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS BAKEL on July 1 for "Food processing equipment with plasma activated water cleaning" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,771, issued on July 1, was assigned to GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS BAKEL B.V. (Bakel, Netherlands).

"Food processing equipment with plasma activated water cleaning" was invented by Joost Van Erp (Nuenen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food processing system that includes at least one food and/or feed processing device and at least one cleaning device. The at least one food and/or feed processing device includes at least one part with a surface which during use will come in contact with a food product. The at least one cleaning device is configured for cleaning at least the surface. The at least one cleaning device includes means ...