US Patent Issued to Meyn Food Processing Technology on April 15 for "System and method for automatically suspending poultry from a carrier of a conveyor" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,271, issued on April 15, was assigned to Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V. (Oostzaan, Netherlands).

"System and method for automatically suspending poultry from a carrier of a conveyor" was invented by Aloysius Christianus Van Steijn (Oostzaan, Netherlands), Rick Sebastiaan Van Stralen (Oostzaan, Netherlands) and Rene Gerardus Hendricus Ai (Oostzaan, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automatically suspending poultry by the legs from a carrier of a carrier conveyor. The system can include an imaging device connected to a decision-making tool to process images from the poultry on a feedline and a visi...