ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,656, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller Se & Co. KG (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).
"Slicing machine with suction unit" was invented by Dominik Marx (Giessen, Germany) and Tom Stachel (Kempten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to keep anticaking agent-related dead times of a slicing machine as low as possible, excess anticaking agent suspended in the air is sucked off by a suction unit so that as little as possible is deposited on parts of the machine which subsequently have to be cleaned frequently, and/or instead of a single reservoir, several different reservoirs are used, which are switchab...