US Patent Issued to GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS BAKEL on Nov. 18 for "Apparatus and method for heating frying oil with solid-state RF energy technology" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,737, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS BAKEL B.V. (Bakel, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and method for heating frying oil with solid-state RF energy technology" was invented by Joost Van Erp (Nuenen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing apparatus, in which a product is fried in a frying oil, frying oil is pumped by a pump in a flow direction through a microwave chamber, the microwave chamber includes at least one solid-state radio frequency source, the frying oil is configured to flow out of the frying oil chamber towards the microwave chamber where the frying oil is heated and then the frying oil is c...