A01J 11/00
Apparatus for treating milk
Official title: Apparatus for treating milk (preservation of milk or milk preparations A23B11/10; dairy concentration, evaporation or drying A23C1/00)
A01J11/00 (Apparatus for treating milk) appears on 102 US grants and 104 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01J- Granted patents
- 102
- Published applications
- 104
- Assignees
- 78
- Inventors
- 189
- Latest grant
- 30 Jun 2026
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| 2022 | 3 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 6 |
| 2025 | 3 | 6 |
| 2026 | 3 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method of removing spores from raw goat milk, process for preparing purified goat milk, goat milk accordingly produced and its use and cheese making method30 Jun 2026US 12,667,113 B2Dairy Protein Cooperation Food B.V.
- Milking device, milk filter and filter cartridge9 Jun 2026US 12,648,542 B2Lely Patent N. V.
- Milking device including tube-shaped filter component13 Jan 2026US 12,520,812 B2Lely Patent N. V.
- In-line sensor, milking cluster and associated methods9 Sep 2025US 12,411,119 B2Bovonic Limited
- System and process for harvesting substances from milk8 Jul 2025US 12,349,691 B1Creative Edge Design Group, Ltd.
- A milk texturing device6 Aug 2026US 2026/0223807 A1Breville Pty Limited
- Device and method for autonomous temperature regulation and heat preservation, beverage preparation device and milk collection device29 Jan 2026US 2026/0026523 A1SETI TECH (Chengdu)Co, Ltd.
- Centrifugal separator with optimized disc separation15 Jan 2026US 2026/0014569 A1Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- In-line sensor, milking cluster and associated methods11 Dec 2025US 2025/0377347 A1Bovonic Limited
- System and process for harvesting substances from milk9 Oct 2025US 2025/0311743 A1Creative Edge Design Group, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for controlling a milking processing system and a device controlled by said method164US 5,722,343 AProlion B.V. · 1998
- Membrane filtration device having a hygienic suspension arrangement125US 9,776,138 B2Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A. · 2017
- Method and system employing a filter-detector for detecting mastitis in cows67US 4,376,053 AAmbic Group Limited · 1983
- Cleaning device for cleaning a teat of an animal44US 6,098,570 AProlion B.V. · 2000
- Portable batch pasteurizer44US 6,276,264 B1Dairy Tech INC · 2001