US Patent Issued to ZIEL EQUIPMENT SALES AND SERVICES on Feb. 18 for "RF treatment systems and methods" (Oregon, Massachusetts, Iowa, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,338, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ZIEL EQUIPMENT SALES AND SERVICES INC. (San Francisco).

"RF treatment systems and methods" was invented by Hon Ming Chun (Lexington, Mass.), Parastoo Yaghmaee (Davis, Calif.), Nathanial G. Smalley (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Zakiul Kabir (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for applying RF power as part of an RF treatment. Starting the RF treatment may include treating a product positioned within an RF chamber with RF waves. The RF treatment may include estimating a log kill of the product during the RF treatment and terminating the RF treatment responsiv...