US Patent Issued to MAREL MEAT, MAREL ICELAND EHF. on Oct. 7 for "Box for four-legged live slaughter animals" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,237, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MAREL MEAT A/S (Roskilde, Denmark) and MAREL ICELAND EHF. (Gardabaer, Iceland).

"Box for four-legged live slaughter animals" was invented by Leif Lykke (Roskilde, Denmark), Heinz Madsen (Roskilde, Denmark), Karl Sigurjonsson (Roskilde, Denmark) and Patrick Westergaard (Roskilde, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A box is for containing one or more four-legged live slaughter animals prior to slaughter, and comprises: a bottom; two sidewalls extending along sides of the bottom, and having a length; a gated inlet formed at a first end of the sidewalls; and an end wall formed at a second end of ...