US Patent Issued on May 13 for "Contact members for packaged articles heated with radio frequency energy" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,378, issued on May 13.

"Contact members for packaged articles heated with radio frequency energy" was invented by Harold Dail Kimrey Jr. (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Heating systems utilizing radio frequency (RF) energy and methods for using the same to rapidly and uniformly heat packaged articles moving through the system on one or more convey lines. These systems may be useful for a variety of processes, including the pasteurization or sterilization of packaged foodstuffs."

The patent was filed on Dec. 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/401,350.

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