US Patent Issued to Clean Crop Technologies on March 31 for "Systems and methods for reactive gas-based product treatment" (Iowa, Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,683, issued on March 31, was assigned to Clean Crop Technologies Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for reactive gas-based product treatment" was invented by Kevin Keener (Ames, Iowa), Daniel White (Chesterfield, Mass.), Daniel Cavanaugh (Alexandria, Va.) and Yaqoot Shaharyar (Northampton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein provide an improved high voltage plasma-based product treatment by integrating the plasma reactor into the processing container. This unique device can deliver a high throughput rate of raw food, without adverse effects on quality. The system is operationally effici...