US Patent Issued to MARK ANTHONY INTERNATIONAL on July 15 for "Methods for sterilizing fermented beverages" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,152, issued on July 15, was assigned to MARK ANTHONY INTERNATIONAL SRL (St. Michael, Barbados).

"Methods for sterilizing fermented beverages" was invented by Tracy L. Thompson (Sudbury, Canada), Anthony C. Vieira (East Dennis, Mass.), Michael G. Ptasznik (Lake Saint Louis, Mo.), David G. Fox (Chicago) and Jacob M. Mattson (Bellevue, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems in a process for disinfecting or sterilizing a fermented beverage and/or a composition utilized in a fermentation process to produce a fermented beverage, using ultraviolet light. Such methods and systems can be coupled with processes for neutralizin...