A22C 17/0073
Processing meat, poultry, or fish: other devices for processing meat or bones
Official title: {using visual recognition, X-rays, ultrasounds, or other contactless means to determine quality or size of portioned meat}
A22C17/0073 (Processing meat, poultry, or fish: other devices for processing meat or bones) appears on 227 US grants and 238 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 238
- Assignees
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- Inventors
- 468
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and method for detecting ink marking and ejecting carcass from line1 Sep 2026US 12,721,353 B1Triumph Foods, LLC
- Method and apparatus for conveying a meat product and using a knife for automated cutting of meat25 Aug 2026US 12,714,117 B1Tyson Foods, Inc.
- Sub-primal cut identification and packaging optimization system and method19 May 2026US 12,628,836 B2JBT Marel Corporation
- Targeting for vacuum-based engagement tools21 Apr 2026US 12,604,910 B2Cryovac, Inc.
- Target detection device, machine learning implementation device, target detection program, and machine learning implementation program24 Mar 2026US 12,586,337 B2Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Sub-primal cut identification and packaging optimization system and method3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256154 A1JBT Marel Corporation
- Method and apparatus for portion cutting of meat items20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240177 A1Marel A/S
- Food Processing Line and Method for Processing Foodstuff13 Aug 2026US 2026/0231991 A1Gea Food Solutions Bakel B.V.
- System and Method to Cut Blocks of Meat30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216905 A1MP Equipment, LLC
- Meat grade determination method and apparatus using an artificial intelligence model9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195775 A1Deeplant, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for automatically cutting food products to predetermined weight or shape84US 4,875,254 ADesign Systems, Inc. · 1989
- Method and apparatus for automatically cutting food products to predetermined weight or shape83US 4,962,568 ADesign Systems, Inc. · 1990
- Computer controlled method and apparatus for meat slabbing66US 5,937,080 ADesign Systems, Inc. · 1999
- Meat imaging system for palatability yield prediction64US 6,198,834 B12001
- Method for the contactless determination of features of meat quality55US 4,226,540 APfister GmbH · 1980