ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,761, issued on June 30, was assigned to API SCHMIDT-BRETTEN GMBH & Co. KG (Bretten, Germany).

"Process for the recovery of at least one fractional substance from vapours during alcohol reduction of a beverage, and fractional substance recovery device" was invented by Karlheinz Sautner (Angelbachtal, Germany) and Christoph Gueltlinger (Bretten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for recovering at least one fractional substance from vapours during the alcohol reduction of a beverage, and fractional substance recovery device for carrying out the process, in which an alcoholic beverage to be reduced in alcohol content is supp...