US Patent Issued to The Livekindly Company Switzerland on Nov. 4 for "Dosing and mixing interim plate" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,041, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Livekindly Co. Switzerland GmbH (Pfaffikon SZ, Switzerland).

"Dosing and mixing interim plate" was invented by Marco Schluter (Quakenbruck, Germany) and Achim Knoch (Minden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a system for dosing and mixing ingredients in a High Moisture Extrusion process, the system comprising: an extruder to mix ingredients to turn them into a protein extrudate, a cooling die to cool the protein extrudate and to cool an enhanced extrudate with ingredients added after the extruder, an interim plate connecting the extruder and the cooling die, to add an...