A22B 5/0076
Chilling or lowering the temperature of carcasses
Official title: {Chilling or lowering the temperature of carcasses}
A22B5/0076 (Chilling or lowering the temperature of carcasses) appears on 69 US grants and 71 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22B- Granted patents
- 69
- Published applications
- 71
- Assignees
- 45
- Inventors
- 139
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 5 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Decontamination tank and method for treating food products6 Oct 2026US 12,751,464 B2Morris & Associates, Inc.
- Device for heating and cooling food items18 Aug 2026US 12,708,122 B2Lambhusasund Ehf.
- Method of sorting beef carcasses11 Aug 2026US 12,702,138 B2Cargill, Incorporated
- Systems and methods for rotating products during processing2 Jun 2026US 12,642,276 B2Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Methods for carcass preparation in beef processing26 May 2026US 12,635,698 B1K.K. Holdings AG
- Method and apparatus for thermal treatment of poultry appendages26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083139 A1Mountaire Corporation
- Systems And Methods For Rotating Products During Processing27 Nov 2025US 2025/0359560 A1Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Removal of insolubles from aqueous streams used in food processing27 Nov 2025US 2025/0359563 A1Safe Foods Corporation
- Multi-Tier, In-Line Immersive Processing System13 Nov 2025US 2025/0347459 A1Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Animal carcass apparatus and method for processing beef with the apparatus11 Sep 2025US 2025/0280839 A1NSC Beef Processing, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Radio frequency identification device and method of use56US 5,964,656 AMeat Processing Service Corporation · 1999
- Carcass chiller and sterilizer50US 4,827,727 A1989
- Method and device for preserving the meat of a slaughtered bird37US 5,595,066 AStork PMT B. V. · 1997
- Water flow for auger type poultry chiller27US 6,397,622 B1Cooling & Applied Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Counter-flow poultry chiller25US 4,860,554 A1989