US Patent Issued to empirical foods on Nov. 4 for "Comminuted meat products and apparatuses and methods for producing comminuted meat products" (South Dakota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,032, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to empirical foods inc. (North Sioux City, S.D.).

"Comminuted meat products and apparatuses and methods for producing comminuted meat products" was invented by Nicholas A. Roth (North Sioux City, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a stream of input material made up of pieces of meat and separating a first material and a second material from the input material. The first material includes liquified meat fat and the second material includes raw lean meat. Fat granules are formed from a portion of the first material. A quantity of the meat fat granules at a meat fat blendin...