US Patent Issued to GEA TDS on Sept. 8 for "Method and apparatus for industrial production of an extract by solid-liquid extraction" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,368, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GEA TDS GmbH (Sarstedt, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for industrial production of an extract by solid-liquid extraction" was invented by Colm O'Gorman (Royston, Great Britain), Ulrich Rolle (Everswinkel, Germany), Maria Carmen Leal Garcia (Muenster, Germany), Ludger Tacke (Velen, Germany) and Franz-Josef Helms (Sarstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The industrial production of an extract by means of solid-liquid extraction improves the exchange of substances during extraction and allows enhanced dehumidification of a raffinate with residual moisture to obtain additional valuable e...