A22C 21/0076
Deboning poultry legs and drumsticks
Official title: {Deboning poultry legs and drumsticks}
A22C21/0076 (Deboning poultry legs and drumsticks) appears on 115 US grants and 70 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22C- Granted patents
- 115
- Published applications
- 70
- Assignees
- 38
- Inventors
- 146
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Meat-attached matter removal device and meat-attached matter removal method1 Sep 2026US 12,721,355 B2Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Poultry deboning device and method5 May 2026US 12,616,216 B2Blexley Holdings LLC
- Meat-attached matter removal device and meat-attached matter removal method18 Nov 2025US 12,471,602 B2Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Meat separator and device for stripping meat part from bone-in meat12 Aug 2025US 12,382,967 B2Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Poultry leg meat slit-forming device and poultry leg meat automatic slit-forming method8 Jul 2025US 12,349,687 B2Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- System for making preparatory incision longitudinally of a poultry leg6 Aug 2026US 2026/0223869 A1
- Device for clamping bone-in meat9 Apr 2026US 2026/0096566 A1Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Meat-attached matter removal device and meat-attached matter removal method5 Feb 2026US 2026/0033501 A1Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Poultry deboning device and method18 Sep 2025US 2025/0287963 A1Blexley Holdings LLC
- Kneecap harvester and method for removing a kneecap22 May 2025US 2025/0160346 A1Meyn Food Processing Technology B. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- On-line thigh deboner58US 4,993,113 A1991
- Method and device for deboning leg pieces of slaughtered animals53US 5,462,477 AStork Protecon B.V. · 1995
- Partially deboned poultry product and process46US 5,976,004 ASystemate Holland, B. V. · 1999
- Apparatus for separating bone and flesh of the legs of poultry or part thereof45US 4,811,456 AMachinefabriek Meyn B.V. · 1989
- Method and device for processing a poultry leg41US 7,059,954 B2Stork PMT B. V. · 2006