US Patent Issued to Clean Safer Systems on June 23 for "Automated clean-in-place apparatus and method" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,837, issued on June 23, was assigned to Clean Safer Systems LLC (Victor, N.Y.).

"Automated clean-in-place apparatus and method" was invented by Robert Tuchrelo (Williamson, N.Y.), Nathan E. Smith (Hamlin, N.Y.) and Richard T. Aab (Fairport, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food processor having a food flow path extending from a food flow path input to a food flow path output. Food product passes in a first direction along the food flow path from an upstream portion of the food flow path to a downstream portion of the food flow path. The food flow path has a freezer chamber, with the freezer chamber having an inlet and an outlet....