ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,138, issued on March 4, was assigned to Fresh Mark Inc. (Massillon, Ohio).
"Foodstuff processing line systems and methods" was invented by Isaac Genshaft (Massillon, Ohio), Anthony Lang (Massillon, Ohio), Dwight Jellison (Massillon, Ohio) and Bill Yeager (Massillon, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process that includes receiving, by a trimmer via a conveyor system, a foodstuff, automatically trimming, by the trimmer and based on trimming instructions, the foodstuff that results in trimmings and a trimmed foodstuff. The process also includes advancing, via the conveyor system, the trimmings of the foodstuff to a trimmings collec...