A22C 21/0061
Cleaning or disinfecting poultry
Official title: {Cleaning or disinfecting poultry}
A22C21/0061 (Cleaning or disinfecting poultry) appears on 132 US grants and 141 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22C- Granted patents
- 132
- Published applications
- 141
- Assignees
- 78
- Inventors
- 246
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 8 | 12 |
| 2025 | 11 | 10 |
| 2026 | 2 | 5 |
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.
- Poultry foot callus extractor17 Mar 2026US 12,575,580 B2CENOTIC Engenharia LTDA
- Poultry stun detection system and method23 Dec 2025US 12,501,907 B1National Chung Hsing University
- Dual waterfall cabinet for food processing applications9 Dec 2025US 12,490,751 B2Safe Foods Corporation
- Equipment and method for processing poultry parts11 Nov 2025US 12,465,057 B2John Bean Technologies MáQuinas E Equipamentos Industriais Ltda.
- Equipment and method for processing poultry parts7 May 2026US 2026/0123638 A1John Bean Technologies MáQuinas E Equipamentos Industriais Ltda.
- Method and apparatus for thermal treatment of poultry appendages26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083139 A1Mountaire Corporation
- Auger-style liquid treatment tanks with instrumentation12 Feb 2026US 2026/0041107 A1Morris & Associates, Inc.
- Dual waterfall cabinet for food processing applications5 Feb 2026US 2026/0033507 A1Safe Foods Corporation
- Poultry foot callus extractor29 Jan 2026US 2026/0026519 A1CENOTIC Engenharia LTDA
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for sanitizing poultry carcasses in a poultry processing plant utilizing ozonated water87US 4,849,237 A1989
- Method for sanitizing food products69US 5,227,184 AAmerican Water Purification, Inc. · 1993
- Reduction of bacteria count on poultry being processed into food at a poultry processing plant59US 4,683,618 A1987
- Method and apparatus for removing fecal matter in poultry59US 4,899,421 AStork-Gamco, Inc. · 1990
- Method for improving the bacteriological quality of slaughtered poultry52US 5,178,890 AStork PMT B. V. · 1993