US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on May 5 for "Cleaning method for sterilization line and sterilization line" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,662, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cleaning method for sterilization line and sterilization line" was invented by Atsushi Hayakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilization line comprising upstream-side and downstream-side tanks for storing liquid which are connected by a conduit for transferring the liquid, holding tubes for sterilizing the liquid which are disposed in an intermediate section of the conduit, heating units for heating the liquid in stages which are disposed in a section of the conduit from the upstream-side tank to the holding tubes, and cooling units for cooling th...