ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,604, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Content-filling system and sterilizing method" was invented by Atsushi Hayakawa (Tokyo), Yukinori Yamamoto (Tokyo), Yuiko Wada (Tokyo), Junichi Murakami (Tokyo), Takahiro Fujino (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content-filling system (10) includes a water sterilization line (50) that sterilizes water without heating, an undiluted-solution sterilization line (70) that heats and sterilizes a product undiluted solution, and a filling device (20) that is connected to the water sterilization line (50) and the undiluted-solutio...