A23C 7/02
Chemical cleaning of dairy apparatus
Official title: Chemical cleaning of dairy apparatus; Use of sterilisation methods therefor
A23C7/02 (Chemical cleaning of dairy apparatus) appears on 33 US grants and 33 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A23C- Granted patents
- 33
- Published applications
- 33
- Assignees
- 35
- Inventors
- 89
- Latest grant
- 19 Aug 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- CIP system19 Aug 2025US 12,389,870 B2E-CIP Concept ApS
- Non-caustic cleaning compositions and uses thereof26 Mar 2024US 11,939,553 B2Ecolab USA Inc.
- Method of cleaning a high temperature food processing line in place and food sterilization line20 Dec 2022US 11,528,919 B2SPX Flow Technology Danmark A/S
- Process for removing the fouling deposited in a milk processor unit and a cleaning solution used therein29 Sep 2020US 10,785,989 B2Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona
- Machine and method for producing and dispensing liquid or semi-liquid consumer food products25 Aug 2020US 10,750,756 B2Ali Group S.R.L.—Carpigiani
- System and methods for mimicking membrane cleaning-in-place conditions9 Apr 2026US 2026/0097368 A1Ecolab USA Inc.
- Multi-step methods of cleaning dairy membranes3 Oct 2024US 2024/0327759 A1Ecolab USA Inc.
- A method for removing deposits inside a section of a food processing system6 Jun 2024US 2024/0180182 A1Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- Cip system13 Jul 2023US 2023/0217885 A1E-CIP Concept ApS
- Method of inducing bacterial heat sensitivity1 Sep 2022US 2022/0273005 A1State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization
Most cited
By later US patents
- Improvements in methods of sterilization93US 4,289,728 ANational Research Development Corporation · 1981
- Use of glycine-N,N-diacetic acid derivatives as biodegradable complexing agents for alkaline earth metal ions and heavy metal ions and process for the preparation thereof59US 5,786,313 ABASF SE · 1998
- Method and composition for cleaning dairy equipment47US 4,212,761 ANovo Laboratories, Inc. · 1980
- Chewable calorie-free chewing gum base45US 4,252,830 ALife Savers, Inc. · 1981
- High temperature/short time pasteurization system and method of cleaning34US 6,136,362 AAlfa Laval Flow GmbH · 2000