ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,545, issued on June 24, was assigned to MAREL SALMON A/S (Stovring, Denmark).
"Fish filleting machine for processing fish such as tilapia" was invented by Anders Kjaer (Aabybro, Denmark), Bjarne Kjeld Jakobsen (Nibe, Denmark) and Thomas Norlund Lanzky (Aalborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fish filleting machine for cutting fillets from fish includes a first set of cutting blades and a second set of cutting blades located along a feed-line and each configured for cutting the dorsal or the ventral part of the fish by cutting towards and along the vertebral column. The first set of cutting blades and the second set of cutti...