A23B 2/05
Preservation of foods or foodstuffs, in general: by heating using irradiation or
Official title: by heating using irradiation or electric treatment (drying or kilning A23B2/90)
A23B2/05 (Preservation of foods or foodstuffs, in general: by heating using irradiation or) appears on 407 US grants and 421 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A23B- Granted patents
- 407
- Published applications
- 421
- Assignees
- 292
- Inventors
- 915
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2006 | 3 | 13 |
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| 2019 | 12 | 38 |
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| 2021 | 26 | 27 |
| 2022 | 19 | 14 |
| 2023 | 17 | 22 |
| 2024 | 19 | 8 |
| 2025 | 7 | 14 |
| 2026 | 2 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Thawing-apparatus and method to thaw a substance4 Aug 2026US 12,696,907 B2Gea Food Solutions Bakel B.V.
- Method for killing aspergillus flavus spores by infrared radiation in coordination with essential oil fumigation6 Jan 2026US 12,514,259 B2Jiangnan University
- System and method for filtering beverages11 Nov 2025US 12,465,066 B2Donaldson Company, Inc.
- Comminuted meat products and apparatuses and methods for producing comminuted meat products4 Nov 2025US 12,458,032 B2empirical foods, inc.
- Method and plant for preparing a food product5 Aug 2025US 12,376,600 B2Pastificio Rana S.P.A.
- Pulsed electric field processor3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256155 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Method of predicting microbial contamination16 Jul 2026US 2026/0201482 A1Cargill, Incorporated
- Cooking apparatus and control method thereof18 Jun 2026US 2026/0173228 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Humic and fulvic mineral extraction method and beverage for human consumption19 Feb 2026US 2026/0048011 A1
- System and method for filtering beverages5 Feb 2026US 2026/0033520 A1Donaldson Company, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Heat treatment of food products190US 4,154,861 A1979
- Variable frequency automated capacitive radio frequency (RF) dielectric heating system190US 6,784,405 B2State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University · 2004
- Sterilization of liquids using plasma glow discharge132US 5,876,663 AThe University of Tennessee Research Corporation · 1999
- Methods for preservation of foodstuffs114US 4,871,559 AMaxwell Laboratories, Inc. · 1989
- Combined microwave and impingement heating apparatus113US 4,409,453 A1983