US Patent Issued to OMNIA DELLA TOFFOLA on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for controlling a winemaking process" (Italian, Tunisian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,289, issued on April 22, was assigned to OMNIA DELLA TOFFOLA S.P.A. (Trevignano, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for controlling a winemaking process" was invented by Giacomo Della Toffola (Montebelluna, Italy), Yacine Amami (Tunisi, Tunisia) and Luca Comin (Trevignano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method and an associated apparatus for a winemaking process, wherein a must obtained from the pressing step is sent to one of a plurality of fermentation tanks or a must is taken from a maceration and fermentation tank. The method comprises the steps of: -preselecting at least one colorimetric value of the said must; -colori...