US Patent Issued to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance on Oct. 14 for "Method and a system for producing a UHT milk product by direct UHT heating" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,932, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Method and a system for producing a UHT milk product by direct UHT heating" was invented by Bozena Malmgren (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a corresponding method for producing a UHT milk product by direct UHT heating. The method comprises feeding milk into a heating device, heating the milk by the heating device to increase a temperature of the milk to a first temperature within a range of 135 to 137deg C., maintaining the milk inside the heating device at the first temperature for a first time within a range ...