US Patent Issued on Feb. 17 for "Plant and process for producing puree and/or juice at high viscosity from a food product of vegetable origin" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,926, issued on Feb. 17.

"Plant and process for producing puree and/or juice at high viscosity from a food product of vegetable origin" was invented by Alessandro Bertocchi (Parma, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant for producing juice and/or puree from a food product includes a first extraction section per subject the food product to a first extraction that produces a first extracted food product including puree, or juice, and a first waste product. The plant has a second extraction section that is positioned downstream of the first extraction section and configured to subject an entering product to a second extraction oper...