A22C 25/14
Beheading, eviscerating, or cleaning fish
Official title: Beheading, eviscerating, or cleaning fish {(combined with removing fish-bone, skinning and filleting A22C25/14; hand tools A22C25/006)}
A22C25/14 (Beheading, eviscerating, or cleaning fish) appears on 143 US grants and 65 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22C- Granted patents
- 143
- Published applications
- 65
- Assignees
- 62
- Inventors
- 214
- Latest grant
- 17 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for automated fish processing17 Feb 2026US 12,550,904 B2Shinkei Systems Corp.
- Apparatuses and methods for automatedly saddling beheaded and eviscerated fish on holding apparatuses for automated further processing and for automatedly obtaining meat from beheaded and eviscerated fish16 Sep 2025US 12,414,573 B2Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH + Co. KG
- Method and device for increasing the proportion of meat used in fish, poultry or other meat products22 Jul 2025US 12,364,270 B2Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH + Co. KG
- Method and device for delaying rigor mortis in fish13 May 2025US 12,295,373 B2Lambhusasund Ehf.
- Fish processing systems and methods25 Mar 2025US 12,256,748 B2RYCO Equipment, Inc.
- Systems and methods for automated fish processing28 May 2026US 2026/0144265 A1Shinkei Systems Corp.
- Fish bleeding treatment method, and production method for bled fish9 Apr 2026US 2026/0096564 A1Hamasui Co., Ltd.
- Fish processing systems and methods14 Aug 2025US 2025/0255317 A1
- Mitigation of invasive fish in rivers and lakes27 Feb 2025US 2025/0064071 A1Hap-E, LLC
- Systems and methods for automated fish processing6 Feb 2025US 2025/0040557 A1Shinkei Systems Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fish cleaning machine and method26US 4,091,506 A1978
- Apparatus for processing filleted flat-fish26US 4,811,462 AMeyn Weighing Systems B.V. · 1989
- Fish processing apparatus23US 4,601,083 AFujitsu Limited · 1986
- Method and apparatus for gutting non-decapitated fish23US 5,026,318 ANordischer Maschinebau Rud.Baader GmbH+Co K.G. · 1991
- Method and apparatus for gutting fish23US 5,980,376 ANordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Bader GmbH + Co. KG · 1999