US Patent Issued to Praxair Technology on Jan. 13 for "System for cooling non-liquid conveyable product" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,854, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Praxair Technology Inc. (Danbury, Conn.).

"System for cooling non-liquid conveyable product" was invented by Balazs Hunek (Western Springs, Ill.), Michael V. Johnson (Naperville, Ill.), Elizabeth W. Wanic (Naperville, Ill.), Soujanya N. Jampala (Chicago) and Theodore H. Gasteyer III (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing a desired amount of cooling to a quantity of non-liquid conveyable product in a vessel within a given length of residence time including: (A) continuously feeding a mass of the product into, through and out of a vessel, at a rate that provides a...