ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,073, issued on May 13, was assigned to Messer SE & Co. KGaA (Bad Soden, Germany) and Messer France S.A.S. (Suresnes, France).
"Method and apparatus for producing frozen products" was invented by Emir Tebib (Gressy, France) and Denis Beil (Niederkassel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of producing frozen products in which a predetermined amount of carbon dioxide snow is produced and piled up to form a volume of snow. Subsequently, a mold impression is pressed into one surface of the snow volume, forming depressions into which at least one product to be cooled is filled. In a cooling device, the...