US Patent Issued to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance on Oct. 20 for "Cleaning in place unit, a cleaning in place system and a method thereof" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,572, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Cleaning in place unit, a cleaning in place system and a method thereof" was invented by Goran Pantzar (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning in place, CIP, unit is provided for cleaning a liquid food processing plant by means of a cleaning liquid. The CIP unit comprising: one or more control valves configured to control a liquid flow of the cleaning liquid in the CIP unit; a flow rate arrangement; a balance tank; and a heat exchanger; forming a main circuit with the liquid food processing plant. The CIP unit further co...