US Patent Issued to Ateliers Busch on March 3 for "Vacuum pump and facility for processing and/or packaging food products" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,879, issued on March 3, was assigned to Ateliers Busch SA (Chevenez, Switzerland).

"Vacuum pump and facility for processing and/or packaging food products" was invented by Nicolas Felten (Bourogne, France) and Erik Lippelt (Inzlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a vacuum pump (1), having a suction (11), a discharge (9) and an interior volume intended to be traversed by gases conveyed from the suction (11) to the discharge (9) by pumping by the vacuum pump. The vacuum pump (1) comprises at least one sterilization element (15) of at least a portion (18) of the interior volume.The invention also relat...