US Patent Issued to GEA Mechanical Equipment on June 9 for "Method for producing a milk or whey powder, and use of a germ-removing separator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,577, issued on June 9, was assigned to GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH (Oelde, Germany).

"Method for producing a milk or whey powder, and use of a germ-removing separator" was invented by Christian Becker (Leopoldshohe, Germany), Daniel Bussmann (Oelde, Germany), Lennart Beick (Bielefeld, Germany) and Thomas Veer (Beesten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a milk or whey powder, involves providing milk or whey, thickening the milk or whey using a first evaporation process or second evaporation process, and drying the thickened milk or whey to provide a milk or whey powder. After the first or second evaporatio...