A22B 3/10
Slaughtering tools
Official title: Slaughtering tools; Slaughtering knives
A22B3/10 (Slaughtering tools) appears on 41 US grants and 26 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22B- Granted patents
- 41
- Published applications
- 26
- Assignees
- 18
- Inventors
- 55
- Latest grant
- 16 Dec 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 |
| 2003 | 2 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 5 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and system for humanely dispatching wounded game16 Dec 2025US 12,495,805 B2
- Electric gaff hook system21 Jan 2025US 12,201,117 B2
- Systems for automated fish processing14 Jan 2025US 12,193,447 B2Shinkei Systems Corp.
- Electric gaff hook system30 Apr 2024US 11,968,986 B2
- Poultry handling and killing apparatus4 Jul 2023US 11,690,381 B2
- Method and system for humanely dispatching wounded game25 Jun 2026US 2026/0174087 A1
- Systems for automated fish processing12 Sep 2024US 2024/0298656 A1Shinkei Systems Corp.
- Sensorised knife-blade cutting system29 Aug 2024US 2024/0285339 A1Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- Electric gaff hook system25 Jul 2024US 2024/0245063 A1
- Electric gaff hook system18 Jan 2024US 2024/0016165 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ergonomic knife and knife handle67US 4,885,818 A1989
- Game cutting tool36US 5,127,162 A1992
- Skinning and cutting knife21US 5,033,987 A1991
- Folding handle hatchet16US 5,347,718 A1994
- System and method for automatically logging article use and an article adapted for such13US 6,867,698 B2Herbert McIvor Holdings Pty Ltd. · 2005