ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,549, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to JBT Marel Corp. (Chicago).

"System and method for optimizing a cleaning session of a food processing system" was invented by Alaska Akbar (Munich), Erland Leide (Helsingborg, Sweden), Jean Bulow (Helsingborg, Sweden), Owen E. Morey (Huron, Ohio) and Dominik Deradjat (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for optimizing a cleaning process of a processing machine having at least one sensor and a computing device having at least one processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that is communicatively coupled to the processing machine and a data store and computer-executable i...