US Patent Issued to Zeco on June 17 for "Methods for related apparatus for increasing antimicrobial efficacy in a poultry chiller tank" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,173, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zeco LLC (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Methods for related apparatus for increasing antimicrobial efficacy in a poultry chiller tank" was invented by Jonathon R. Bullard (Chattanooga, Tenn.), James A. Faller (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Robert C. Bullard (Signal Mountain, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and related apparatus for improving the efficacy of antimicrobial agents within processing tanks. Processing tanks can include side streams for introducing antimicrobial agents into the processing tanks. The antimicrobial agents will be added and mixed in the side stream to form a processing s...