A23B 11/137
In direct contact with the heating medium
Official title: in direct contact with the heating medium, e.g. steam
A23B11/137 (In direct contact with the heating medium) appears on 84 US grants and 61 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A23B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 61
- Assignees
- 46
- Inventors
- 142
- Latest grant
- 14 Oct 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method and a system for producing a UHT milk product by direct UHT heating14 Oct 2025US 12,439,932 B2Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- Heating medium injectors and injection methods for heating foodstuffs19 Aug 2025US 12,389,918 B2Empirical Innovations, Inc.
- Articles including undenatured meat protein12 Aug 2025US 12,382,970 B2Empirical Innovations, Inc.
- Systems and methods for receiving the output of a direct steam injector12 Nov 2024US 12,137,714 B2Empirical Innovations, Inc.
- Method for producing a heat-treated concentrated dairy product22 Oct 2024US 12,121,038 B2Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- Heating medium injectors and injection methods for heating foodstuffs13 Nov 2025US 2025/0344708 A1Empirical Innovations, Inc.
- Articles including undenatured meat protein6 Nov 2025US 2025/0338862 A1Empirical Innovations, Inc.
- Method of Producing a Milk-Based Product30 Oct 2025US 2025/0331529 A1Novozymes A/S
- Infusion heater and system for heating a liquid product using saturated steam15 May 2025US 2025/0155200 A1H. Kjærbye Invent ApS
- Systems and methods for receiving the output of a direct steam injector20 Feb 2025US 2025/0057171 A1Empirical Innovations, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for treating fluent materials45US 4,310,476 ADasi Industries, Inc. · 1982
- Method and apparatus for treating fluent materials33US 4,419,301 ADasi Industries, Inc. · 1983
- Steam injectors32US 4,160,002 A1979
- Process for the thermal treatment of fluids32US 4,689,237 AInstitute National de la Recherche Agronomique · 1987
- Temperature shock method and apparatus29US 5,914,255 A1999