US Patent Issued on Sept. 9 for "Plant and process for producing puree and/or juice starting from a food product of vegetable origin" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,688, issued on Sept. 9.

"Plant and process for producing puree and/or juice starting 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 starting from a food product of vegetable origin, includes an extraction machine within which a starting food product is subject to an extraction step, to obtain an extracted food product and a waste product. The plant further includes a heat exchange apparatus positioned downstream of the extraction machine configured to heat or cool the food product from an inlet temperature to a predet...