ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,322, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DESVAC (Saint-Barthelemy-d'Anjou, France).

"System and method for injecting poultry" was invented by William Boyer (Saint-Barthelemy-d'Anjou, France), Erwan Fonteny (Saint-Barthelemy-d'Anjou, France), Carlos Gonzalez (Saint-Barthelemy-d'Anjou, France) and Stephane Veyrent (Saint-Barthelemy-d'Anjou, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injector, injection system, and methods for injecting products to a fowl, in which the injector includes a retention member with at least one hole formed in the retention member, a retention member supporting surface supporting the retention member, and inject...