US Patent Issued to MAYEKAWA MFG on Aug. 12 for "Meat separator and device for stripping meat part from bone-in meat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,967, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MAYEKAWA MFG Co. LTD. (Toyko, Japan).

"Meat separator and device for stripping meat part from bone-in meat" was invented by Shinji Hane (Tokyo), Tomotaka Kajiyama (Tokyo), Kenichi Oka (Tokyo), Yusuke Koyama (Tokyo) and Ryuji Kodama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meat separator separates meat part attached to bone part by coming into contact with outer peripheral surface of the bone part of bone-in meat that moves relatively with respect to the meat separator. The meat separator includes a plurality of clamp blocks. The clamp blocks each include scraping contact portion that comes into ...