ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,725, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).
"Slicing machine with spray unit" was invented by Dominik Marx (Giessen, Germany) and Christian Dersch (Breidenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To minimize contamination by an anticaking agent of parts of a slicing machine located away from a slice to be produced or already produced by the slicing machine, only a corresponding main surface of the slice is coated with the anticaking agent, if possible. For which purpose, an actual anticaking agent image on the main surface is automatically determined and compared by a...