US Patent Issued to Baader Poultry Holding on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus and method for grading, batching and selectively transferring food parts" (Kansas, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,906, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Baader Poultry Holding GmbH (Lubeck, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for grading, batching and selectively transferring food parts" was invented by Douglas Bryan Barnett (Olathe, Kan.), Ryan John Foltz (Bucyrus, Kan.) and Ryan Wesley O'Dell (Weatherby Lake, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for grading/batching food parts includes a scale unit with a first predetermined precision, a plurality of batch bins to receive food parts, a weighing station to weigh food parts, which have not yet been transferred into the bins, with a second predetermined precision greater than the first pr...