ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,163, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH (Biedenkopf-Wallau, Germany).
"Longitudinal nozzle arrangement" was invented by Reiner Paul (Dautphetal-Elmshausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that includes a longitudinal nozzle arrangement that has a longitudinal extension direction along which a plurality of injection openings and/or evacuation openings are provided and that has a first end and a second end along the longitudinal extension direction; and a ramp is provided at at least one of the first end and the second end, an incline of which extends at least in the longitudinal extensio...