A22C 29/024
Opening, shelling or peeling shellfish
Official title: {Opening, shelling or peeling shellfish}
A22C29/024 (Opening, shelling or peeling shellfish) appears on 201 US grants and 82 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22C- Granted patents
- 201
- Published applications
- 82
- Assignees
- 60
- Inventors
- 315
- Latest grant
- 15 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
- Shrimp processing apparatus and methods15 Sep 2026US 12,733,653 B2Nova-Tech Engineering, Inc.
- Crab processing systems and methods3 Mar 2026US 12,564,195 B2
- Shrimp processing apparatus and methods4 Nov 2025US 12,458,034 B2Nova-Tech Engineering, Inc.
- Shellfish meat extraction device6 May 2025US 12,290,077 B2
- Shrimp processing system4 Mar 2025US 12,239,139 B2Laitram, L. L. C.
- Shrimp processing apparatus and methods5 Feb 2026US 2026/0033502 A1Nova-Tech Engineering, Inc.
- Automated crawfish peeling device13 Nov 2025US 2025/0344707 A1University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Shellfish meat extraction device3 Oct 2024US 2024/0324614 A1
- Shrimp processing apparatus and methods22 Aug 2024US 2024/0276996 A1Nova-Tech Engineering, Inc.
- Crustacean butchering apparatus23 Nov 2023US 2023/0371533 A1Area52 Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Utensil for opening the shells of crustaceans38US 5,613,904 ALaSalle Product Development, Inc. · 1997
- Shellfish claw cutter29US 5,403,230 A1995
- Separating meat from shell28US 4,200,961 A1980
- Apparatus for controlling precooking and machine peeling shrimp27US 4,862,794 ALaitram, L. L. C. · 1989
- Crab leg knife25US 4,569,103 A1986