US Patent Issued to GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS BAKEL on June 16 for "Food processing equipment with plasma activated water cleaning" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,206, issued on June 16, was assigned to GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS BAKEL B.V. (Bakel, Netherlands).

"Food processing equipment with plasma activated water cleaning" was invented by Joost Van Erp (Nuenen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting and/or sterilizing a filter and/or one or more needles of a food injector device with a cleaning device, the method includes: supplying water and electric current to the cleaning device; treating the filter and/or the one or more needles of the food injector device with the plasma activated water; the cleaning device includes either: i) an atmospheric-...