ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,853, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Baader Food Systems Denmark A/S (Trige, Denmark).
"Apparatus and method for the automatic harvesting of edible components of a giblet bundle of slaughtered poultry" was invented by Torben Andersen (Trige, Denmark) and Bendt Soerensen (Trige, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and methods are for automatic harvesting of edible components of a giblet bundle. The apparatus includes a transport means for transporting the giblet bundle suspended on the heart and/or on the lungs, and which is positioned along a first transport path along a plurality of processing stations configured ...