Liquid nitrogen immersion/impingement freezing method and apparatus
CA 2128352 C · Owner: Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. · Inventors: Snyder, Russell Ira, Iii; Kiczek, Edward Francis; Howells, Roger Alan
Overview
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Method and apparatus for rapidly crust or through freezing a particle by simultaneously moving the particle through a bath of cryogenic liquid and exposing the particle or portions of the particle not submerged in the liquid to a spray of the cryogenic liquid.
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- Filed July 19, 1994 and granted September 17, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 19, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 19, 2016.
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