US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on Sept. 9 for "Fruit sterilizing and cooling device using plasma-activated ice-water mixture" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,679, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Fruit sterilizing and cooling device using plasma-activated ice-water mixture" was invented by Di Wu (Hangzhou, China), Feng Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Xiangzheng Yang (Hangzhou, China), Chongde Sun (Hangzhou, China) and Kunsong Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fruit sterilizing and cooling device using a plasma-activated ice-water mixture includes a top-opened tank body, where the tank body includes a front side provided with an ice-water tank, and a rear side provided with a cooling tank; a clapboard is provided between the ice-wate...