ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,365, issued on June 23, was assigned to PROBAT SE (Emmerich, Germany).
"Color-monitoring assembly for a roasting material, roaster assembly and method for roasting the roasting material" was invented by Uwe Moeller-Willenberg (Kleve, Germany) and Thomas Koziorowski (Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A color monitoring arrangement includes a light sender, a light guide arrangement with a light guide which forwards a light beam emitted by the light sender to illuminate a product, and a light guide which forwards light reflected by the product to a light receiver, an optical device which applies the light beam...