ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,283, issued on June 2, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).
"Ice cream freezer" was invented by Kurt Kristensen (Tranbjerg, Denmark) and Erik Jimmy Wolf Petersen (Vejle, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice cream freezer comprising an elongated housing having a jacket and an interior space in which a dasher with a rotatable hollow cylinder body is arranged, the cylinder body comprising a scraper blade arranged along the periphery of the cylinder body, an inlet located before the scraper blade for allowing ice cream mixture to enter an inside of the cylinder body, and an outlet located afte...