A22C 29/025
Mechanically opening and shelling crabs, lobsters or other hard-shelled crustaceans
Official title: {Mechanically opening and shelling crabs, lobsters or other hard-shelled crustaceans}
A22C29/025 (Mechanically opening and shelling crabs, lobsters or other hard-shelled crustaceans) appears on 52 US grants and 26 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22C- Granted patents
- 52
- Published applications
- 26
- Assignees
- 21
- Inventors
- 87
- Latest grant
- 6 May 2025
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| 2024 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Shellfish meat extraction device6 May 2025US 12,290,077 B2
- Crustacean butchering apparatus26 Nov 2024US 12,150,456 B2Area52 Ltd
- Method and apparatus to extract crawfish tail meat21 May 2024US 11,985,984 B2
- Automated crab meat picking method30 Jan 2024US 11,882,843 B1University of Maryland, College Park
- Crab processing machine and method, and crab eviscerating disc therefor18 Jul 2023US 11,700,861 B2
- Automated crawfish peeling device13 Nov 2025US 2025/0344707 A1University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Shellfish meat extraction device3 Oct 2024US 2024/0324614 A1
- Crustacean butchering apparatus23 Nov 2023US 2023/0371533 A1Area52 Ltd
- Crab processing machine and method, and crab eviscerating disc therefor15 Jun 2023US 2023/0180772 A1
- Microwaveable frozen lobster tail product5 Jan 2023US 2023/0000096 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Water based crab meat extraction process with water recirculation19US 5,928,072 A1999
- Crab butchering machine18US 4,073,041 AApplied Magnetics Corporation · 1978
- Method and apparatus for removing lump meat from a Chesapeake Bay blue crab16US 4,535,507 ASea Savory, Inc. · 1985
- Crustacean meat extraction means15US 4,121,322 A1978
- Method for thermally blasting outer coverings from food products15US 4,569,850 AAuburn Research Foundation · 1986