ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,818, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MAREL FURTHER PROCESSING B.V. (Boxmeer, Netherlands) and MAREL FRANCE (Baud, France).
"Cleaning of food product moulding inserts" was invented by Johannes Martinus Meulendijks (Deurne, Netherlands), Jacques Le Paih (Plumeliau, France), Yohann Julien Victor Pierre (Kervignac, France) and Fabrice Le Pabic (Baud, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for cleaning food product molding inserts that have been temporarily detached from a movable mold member of a molding device that is configured for molding food products from a pumpable foodstuff mass."
The patent was filed on Ma...