US Patent Issued to IMA Life North America on Aug. 25 for "Freeze drying with combined freezing chamber and condenser" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,653, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to IMA Life North America Inc. (Tonawanda, N.Y.).

"Freeze drying with combined freezing chamber and condenser" was invented by David Debo (Batavia, N.Y.), Arnab Ganguly (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Dennis Posheluk (Tonawanda, N.Y.) and Ernesto Renzi (Youngstown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact freeze dryer removes a liquid from a bulk powder product. The freeze dryer utilizes a single cryogenic vessel for both (1) freezing the liquid contained in the bulk product, and (2) condensing vapor resulting from sublimating the frozen liquid. A vacuum pump is connected to the cryogenic vessel for...