A22C
Processing meat, poultry, or fish
Official title: PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH (preserving A23B; obtaining protein compositions for foodstuffs A23J1/00; fish, meat or poultry preparations A23L; disintegrating, e.g. chopping meat, B02C18/00; preparation of proteins C07K1/00)
A22C (Processing meat, poultry, or fish) appears on 6,194 US grants and 3,843 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22C- Granted patents
- 6,194
- Published applications
- 3,843
- Assignees
- 1,644
- Inventors
- 7,216
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 122 | 0 |
| 1977 | 126 | 0 |
| 1978 | 97 | 0 |
| 1979 | 69 | 0 |
| 1980 | 123 | 0 |
| 1981 | 121 | 0 |
| 1982 | 99 | 0 |
| 1983 | 100 | 0 |
| 1984 | 111 | 0 |
| 1985 | 145 | 0 |
| 1986 | 152 | 0 |
| 1987 | 141 | 0 |
| 1988 | 138 | 0 |
| 1989 | 125 | 0 |
| 1990 | 129 | 0 |
| 1991 | 134 | 0 |
| 1992 | 148 | 0 |
| 1993 | 129 | 0 |
| 1994 | 109 | 0 |
| 1995 | 95 | 0 |
| 1996 | 92 | 0 |
| 1997 | 76 | 0 |
| 1998 | 114 | 0 |
| 1999 | 127 | 0 |
| 2000 | 136 | 0 |
| 2001 | 127 | 23 |
| 2002 | 80 | 96 |
| 2003 | 105 | 111 |
| 2004 | 80 | 149 |
| 2005 | 71 | 206 |
| 2006 | 125 | 168 |
| 2007 | 99 | 147 |
| 2008 | 104 | 157 |
| 2009 | 106 | 149 |
| 2010 | 117 | 153 |
| 2011 | 112 | 146 |
| 2012 | 116 | 149 |
| 2013 | 126 | 157 |
| 2014 | 171 | 178 |
| 2015 | 147 | 171 |
| 2016 | 135 | 144 |
| 2017 | 172 | 162 |
| 2018 | 138 | 152 |
| 2019 | 119 | 169 |
| 2020 | 164 | 165 |
| 2021 | 135 | 148 |
| 2022 | 143 | 178 |
| 2023 | 140 | 188 |
| 2024 | 158 | 146 |
| 2025 | 150 | 149 |
| 2026 | 96 | 82 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
- A22C 17/00Processing meat, poultry, or fish: other devices for processing meat or bones1,477
- A22C 21/00Processing poultry1,376
- A22C 11/00Sausage making1,053
- A22C 13/00Sausage casings801
- A22C 25/00Processing fish745
- A22C 7/00Apparatus for pounding, forming, or pressing meat, sausage-meat, or meat products577
- A22C 29/00Processing shellfish or bivalves447
- A22C 9/00Apparatus for tenderising meat292
Recent patents
- Method for producing a product containing food in a skin6 Oct 2026US 12,751,463 B2Peme SA
- Decontamination tank and method for treating food products6 Oct 2026US 12,751,464 B2Morris & Associates, Inc.
- Meat grinder with funneled feed chute6 Oct 2026US 12,752,282 B2Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.
- Seafood processing system and related methods29 Sep 2026US 12,745,780 B2
- Poultry-processing equipment with a mounting chassis22 Sep 2026US 12,740,572 B2Ardisam, Inc.
- A slaughtered pig part processing plant and a method of retaining a slaughtered pig part by a hook8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305627 A1Frontmatec Group Aps
- Paper substrate for fibrous casing substrate8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308848 A1Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd.
- Cutting device and method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283166 A1Marel Red Meat B.V.
- Selecting device for pieces of processed meat, method for selecting pieces of processed meat and plant for slicing pieces of processed meat provided with this selecting device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283167 A1Ve.Ma.C. Societa' A Responsabilita' Limitata
- Work grasping apparatus and work grasping method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283168 A1Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for tracking the production history of food products379US 5,478,990 AColeman Environmental Systems, Inc. · 1995
- Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning257US 7,389,156 B2iRobot Corporation · 2008
- Distributor apparatus with a pair of intermeshing screw rotors255US 9,938,972 B2Fish Engineering Limited · 2018
- Methods and compositions for oxygen scavenging190US 5,211,875 AW. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. · 1993
- Bundling device170US 7,377,845 B2Fusionbrands Incorporated · 2008