US Patent Issued to Mayekawa on July 8 for "Poultry leg meat slit-forming device and poultry leg meat automatic slit-forming method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,687, issued on July 8, was assigned to Mayekawa Mfg. Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Poultry leg meat slit-forming device and poultry leg meat automatic slit-forming method" was invented by Ken Masubuchi (Tokyo), Shinya Nakamura (Tokyo), Kenichi Oka (Tokyo), Kenichiro Sakurai (Tokyo) and Noriyuki Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A poultry leg meat slit-forming device includes: an ankle holding part configured to hold an ankle of bone-in poultry leg meat cut from a femur of a poultry carcass; a blade unit having a slit-forming blade; an inserting driving part configured to drive the blade unit such that an blade tip of the slit-forming b...