ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,602, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MAYEKAWA MFG. Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Meat-attached matter removal device and meat-attached matter removal method" was invented by Naoya Kashihara (Tokyo), Motomasa Tanaka (Tokyo) and Shinji Hane (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meat-attached matter removal device includes a pair of gripping arms, an arm driving unit, and a circular blade body. The pair of gripping arms grip a base of an attached matter, which is attached to a chicken thigh meat, from both sides and raises the attached matter from the chicken thigh meat. The arm driving unit drives the pair of gripping arms. The circular blad...