ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,688, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe ANonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).
"Method for in-line measurement of the temperature of products travelling on a conveyor in a food processing operation" was invented by Didier Pathier (Les Loges-en-Josas, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for determining the temperature of products transported on the conveyor belt of a cryogenic tunnel, comprising the following steps: -continuously measuring the surface temperature of products travelling on the conveyor belt; -measuring the thickness of a product at the point where the ...