A22
Butchering
Official title: Butchering; meat treatment; processing poultry or fish
A22 (Butchering) appears on 7,270 US grants and 4,479 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22- Granted patents
- 7,270
- Published applications
- 4,479
- Assignees
- 1,945
- Inventors
- 8,563
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 141 | 0 |
| 1977 | 144 | 0 |
| 1978 | 113 | 0 |
| 1979 | 79 | 0 |
| 1980 | 135 | 0 |
| 1981 | 135 | 0 |
| 1982 | 120 | 0 |
| 1983 | 109 | 0 |
| 1984 | 126 | 0 |
| 1985 | 157 | 0 |
| 1986 | 173 | 0 |
| 1987 | 162 | 0 |
| 1988 | 155 | 0 |
| 1989 | 142 | 0 |
| 1990 | 145 | 0 |
| 1991 | 151 | 0 |
| 1992 | 178 | 0 |
| 1993 | 149 | 0 |
| 1994 | 138 | 0 |
| 1995 | 115 | 0 |
| 1996 | 112 | 0 |
| 1997 | 106 | 0 |
| 1998 | 137 | 0 |
| 1999 | 148 | 0 |
| 2000 | 172 | 0 |
| 2001 | 162 | 28 |
| 2002 | 104 | 116 |
| 2003 | 132 | 136 |
| 2004 | 101 | 192 |
| 2005 | 92 | 240 |
| 2006 | 147 | 203 |
| 2007 | 129 | 192 |
| 2008 | 132 | 191 |
| 2009 | 133 | 178 |
| 2010 | 143 | 184 |
| 2011 | 139 | 167 |
| 2012 | 138 | 169 |
| 2013 | 151 | 181 |
| 2014 | 199 | 211 |
| 2015 | 174 | 200 |
| 2016 | 163 | 169 |
| 2017 | 196 | 182 |
| 2018 | 157 | 176 |
| 2019 | 145 | 189 |
| 2020 | 186 | 186 |
| 2021 | 154 | 161 |
| 2022 | 153 | 194 |
| 2023 | 154 | 210 |
| 2024 | 176 | 164 |
| 2025 | 166 | 166 |
| 2026 | 102 | 94 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subclasses
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for producing a product containing food in a skin6 Oct 2026US 12,751,463 B2Peme SA
- Decontamination tank and method for treating food products6 Oct 2026US 12,751,464 B2Morris & Associates, Inc.
- Meat grinder with funneled feed chute6 Oct 2026US 12,752,282 B2Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.
- Seafood processing system and related methods29 Sep 2026US 12,745,780 B2
- Poultry-processing equipment with a mounting chassis22 Sep 2026US 12,740,572 B2Ardisam, Inc.
- A slaughtered pig part processing plant and a method of retaining a slaughtered pig part by a hook8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305627 A1Frontmatec Group Aps
- Paper substrate for fibrous casing substrate8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308848 A1Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd.
- Euthanasia chamber for receiving intact wire cage traps containing live animals and method of use1 Oct 2026US 2026/0293916 A1
- Cutting device and method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283166 A1Marel Red Meat B.V.
- Selecting device for pieces of processed meat, method for selecting pieces of processed meat and plant for slicing pieces of processed meat provided with this selecting device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283167 A1Ve.Ma.C. Societa' A Responsabilita' Limitata
Most cited
By later US patents
- Pneumatic meat saw1,029US 4,675,944 A1987
- Method for tracking the production history of food products379US 5,478,990 AColeman Environmental Systems, Inc. · 1995
- Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning257US 7,389,156 B2iRobot Corporation · 2008
- Distributor apparatus with a pair of intermeshing screw rotors255US 9,938,972 B2Fish Engineering Limited · 2018
- Apparatus and methods for the volumetric and dimensional measurement of livestock206US 6,974,373 B2Geissler Technologies, LLC · 2005