A22B 5/007
Non-invasive scanning of carcasses
Official title: {Non-invasive scanning of carcasses, e.g. using image recognition, tomography, X-rays, ultrasound (analysing meat, e.g. search for foreign embedded objects G01N33/12; image analysis G06T7/00)}
A22B5/007 (Non-invasive scanning of carcasses) appears on 138 US grants and 111 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 11 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- System and method for generating a sortation module and carcass processing options20 May 2025US 12,302,912 B1Triumph Foods, LLC
- System and method for generating a sortation module and carcass processing options18 Feb 2025US 12,225,910 B1Triumph Foods, LLC
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- Systems and methods for automated fish processing28 May 2026US 2026/0144265 A1Shinkei Systems Corp.
- Method and system for micro near infrared detection of amino acid levels in breast muscle29 Jan 2026US 2026/0026923 A1Tyson Foods, Inc.
- Apparatus for facilitating ultrasound scanning27 Nov 2025US 2025/0359559 A1Meq Probe Pty Ltd
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By later US patents
- Apparatus and methods for the volumetric and dimensional measurement of livestock206US 6,974,373 B2Geissler Technologies, LLC · 2005
- Method and apparatus for measuring characteristics of meat186US 5,872,314 A1999
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- Method and apparatus for using image analysis to determine meat and carcass characteristics116US 5,944,598 AAgri-Food Canada · 1999
- Image analysis for meat112US 5,793,879 AMeat Research Corporation · 1998