US Patent Issued on Sept. 15 for "System for maturing large quantities of wine" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,662, issued on Sept. 15.

"System for maturing large quantities of wine" was invented by Bryce Ecklein (Friday Harbor, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A means for maturing large volumes of wine where the wine experiences controlled oxygenation through contact with oak and external air/oxygen sources. Wine from large volume holding tanks (500-10,000+ gallons) is passed through airtight baffle tanks containing cored oak baffles before being returned to the larger holding tank(s)."

The patent was filed on Feb. 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/104,303.

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