US Patent Issued to KRONES on July 1 for "Thermal treatment device and method for operating the thermal treatment device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,486, issued on July 1, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Thermal treatment device and method for operating the thermal treatment device" was invented by Christian Depner (Neutraubling, Germany), Jens Luecke (Neutraubling, Germany), Niels Clausen (Neutraubling, Germany) and Johannes Ledderer (Neutraubling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a thermal treatment device, such as a pasteurizer, cooler or heater, having at least one container feed device for feeding containers each to one mass flow conveyor comprised by the thermal treatment device. The treatment device adjoins the at least one...