US Patent Issued to MIDEA GROUP on April 15 for "Through opening air knife for high speed reusable beverage container washing system" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,409, issued on April 15, was assigned to MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Through opening air knife for high speed reusable beverage container washing system" was invented by Joel Boyer (Louisville, Ky.) and Robert M. Digman (Goshen, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage container washing system may utilize a through opening air knife to direct a flow of pressurized fluid through an opening in a concentric housing member of a beverage container washing system and onto a beverage container disposed within a wash chamber thereof."

The patent was filed on Sept. 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/934,061.

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