US Patent Issued to Meyn Food Processing Technology on Nov. 18 for "Apparatus for weighing poultry moving in a conveyor line" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,197, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V. (Oostzaan, Netherlands).

"Apparatus for weighing poultry moving in a conveyor line" was invented by Jan Willem Hagendoorn (Oostzaan, Netherlands), Aloysius Christianus Maria Van Steijn (Oostzaan, Netherlands), Izzet Ozkan (Oostzaan, Netherlands), Patrick Keesman (Oostzaan, Netherlands), Eric De Jong (Oostzaan, Netherlands) and Nico Willem Van Vliet (Oostzaan, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for weighing poultry in a conveyor line can include carriers for the poultry, linked to each other by a driving chain. The conveyor line can inclu...