A22B 5/0041
Electronic, robotic or computer assisted cutting, dividing or deboning carcasses
Official title: {Electronic, robotic or computer assisted cutting, dividing or deboning carcasses}
A22B5/0041 (Electronic, robotic or computer assisted cutting, dividing or deboning carcasses) appears on 58 US grants and 51 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22B- Granted patents
- 58
- Published applications
- 51
- Assignees
- 38
- Inventors
- 89
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Cutting system for cutting carcass parts while the carcass parts are carried by carriers connected to and moved by an overhang transport system12 May 2026US RE50,883 E1Marel Meat B.V.
- Systems and methods for automated fish processing17 Feb 2026US 12,550,904 B2Shinkei Systems Corp.
- Method, devices and arrangements for locating bony parts present in a poultry leg27 Jan 2026US 12,535,436 B2FPI Food Processing Innovation GmbH + Co. KG
- Cutting device, a system including a cutting device and a method for cutting free a rectum end portion of an animal carcass16 Dec 2025US 12,495,806 B2Marel Red Meat B.V.
- Device and method for removing leaf lard from slaughtered animals8 Apr 2025US 12,268,216 B2Marel Red Meat B.V.
- Systems and methods for automated fish processing28 May 2026US 2026/0144265 A1Shinkei Systems Corp.
- Method, devices and arrangements for locating bony parts present in a poultry leg13 Feb 2025US 2025/0052699 A1FPI Food Processing Innovation GmbH + Co. KG
- Systems and methods for automated fish processing6 Feb 2025US 2025/0040557 A1Shinkei Systems Corp.
- A cutting device, a system including a cutting device and a method for cutting free a rectum end portion of an animal carcass14 Nov 2024US 2024/0373865 A1Marel Red Meat B.V.
- Sensorised knife-blade cutting system29 Aug 2024US 2024/0285339 A1Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Most cited
By later US patents
- Abrasive for a water jet cutting head64US 5,162,016 ATexas Beef Group · 1992
- Method and apparatus for automatically trimming fatty tissue from animal carcasses59US 5,334,084 ATexas Beef Group · 1994
- Method and apparatus for automatically segmenting animal carcasses57US 5,205,779 ATexas Beef Group · 1993
- Method and apparatus for automatically segmenting animal carcasses50US 5,314,375 ATexas Beef Group · 1994
- Water jet/abrasive jet cutting head34US 5,133,687 ATexas Beef Group · 1992