MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517051840 A) filed by Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG, Reinach, Switzerland, on May 29, for 'method for continuously determining the lactose, protein, and fat content of milk.'
Inventor(s) include Kapussuzi, Elena; Pfluger, Stefan; Habermehl, Anne; and Hurni, Ronen.
The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a method for determining, in particular in a continuous manner, the lactose content a, protein content b, and fat content c of a flowable medium, in particular milk, a milk substitute, and/or a milk product, having the steps of: - ascertaining the frequency-based relative permittivity of the medium over a frequency range of a frequency spectrum, wherein the frequency spectrum has an upper limit of 50 GHz, in particular 25 GHz, preferably 14 GHz, and the frequency spectrum has a lower limit of 10 MHz, in particular 50 MHz, preferably 85 MHz; and - calculating the lactose content a, protein content b, and fat content c on the basis of the ascertained relative permittivity and on the basis of a lactose reference, a protein reference, and a fat reference. The invention additionally relates to a measuring assembly."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 16, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/081999.
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