A22B 3/08
Slaughtering or stunning: for poultry or fish
Official title: for poultry or fish, e.g. slaughtering pliers, slaughtering shears
A22B3/08 (Slaughtering or stunning: for poultry or fish) appears on 116 US grants and 108 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22B- Granted patents
- 116
- Published applications
- 108
- Assignees
- 62
- Inventors
- 191
- Latest grant
- 17 Feb 2026
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| 2024 | 4 | 8 |
| 2025 | 7 | 6 |
| 2026 | 2 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for automated fish processing17 Feb 2026US 12,550,904 B2Shinkei Systems Corp.
- Fish sedating device3 Feb 2026US 12,538,927 B2Nishinihon Nichimo Co.,Ltd.
- Poultry stun detection system and method23 Dec 2025US 12,501,907 B1National Chung Hsing University
- Method and system for humanely dispatching wounded game16 Dec 2025US 12,495,805 B2
- Onsite CO2 generation for poultry stunning26 Aug 2025US 12,396,464 B2Messer Industries USA, Inc.
- Processing line and method for processing products of the food processing industry and in particular stunned poultry bodies20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240176 A1Baader Poultry Holding GmbH
- Method and system for humanely dispatching wounded game25 Jun 2026US 2026/0174087 A1
- Systems and methods for automated fish processing28 May 2026US 2026/0144265 A1Shinkei Systems Corp.
- Fish bleeding treatment method, and production method for bled fish9 Apr 2026US 2026/0096564 A1Hamasui Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus and method for stunning fish26 Feb 2026US 2026/0053151 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and device for stunning of poultry48US 5,643,072 AStork PMT B. V. · 1997
- Killing device for poultry36US 4,894,885 AStork PMT B. V. · 1990
- Poultry stunning system34US 7,717,773 B2Dakota Turkey Growers, LLC · 2010
- Method and device for processing a slaughter animal32US 6,899,613 B2Stork PMT B. V. · 2005
- Treatment of poultry26US 5,487,699 AAnglia Autoflow Limited · 1996