US Patent Issued to SOLUTHERM on June 17 for "Multi stage safe dry condensing" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,087, issued on June 17, was assigned to SOLUTHERM B.V. (Oss, Netherlands).

"Multi stage safe dry condensing" was invented by Pieter Jellema (Oss, Netherlands) and Jelle Luutzen Nijdam (Oss, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for deodorizing an edible oil or fat. The method includes stripping substances from the oil or fat with a stripping medium at high temperature at a pressure of less than 5 mbar, and reducing volume and increasing pressure of the stripping medium in a multi-step process. In a first step the volume of the stripping medium is reduced by cooling it using a first heat transfer fluid loop at...