ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,466, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Safe Foods Corp. (North Little Rock, Ark.).
"Removal of insolubles from aqueous streams used in food processing" was invented by Jason Henley (Searcy, Ark.), Steve Huff (Sherwood, Ark.) and Todd Coleman (Batesville, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food processing system includes at least one receptacle containing a composition of water and insoluble solids, a centripetal force-based solid/liquid separator having an inlet, a solids outlet, and a liquid outlet, and a pump able to direct the composition from the receptacle to the inlet of the separator. The separator is configured to separat...