US Patent Issued to BUHLER on Nov. 3 for "Process for energy-efficient drying of germinated seeds and device for implementation of the process" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,053, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BUHLER GMBH (Beilngries, Germany).

"Process for energy-efficient drying of germinated seeds and device for implementation of the process" was invented by Clement Lefebvre (Renens, Switzerland), Michael Rittenauer (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Albert Garcia Torrento (Winterthur, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and device for energy-efficient drying of green malt in a drying kiln using a rotational speed-modulated fan for directing an air mass flow through a bed of drying material for the green malt. The drying is implemented for a specified maximum kiln time. To do this, grain m...