US Patent Issued to MMC FIRST PROCESS AS on Oct. 14 for "Water and seafood flow distributor" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,897, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MMC FIRST PROCESS AS (Fosnavag, Norway).

"Water and seafood flow distributor" was invented by Jan Petter Urke (Haramsoy, Norway), Leif Roger Gjelseth (Bolandet, Norway) and Karl-Johan Mork (Ulsteinvik, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water and seafood flow distributor (1) for routing flowable mass from a first location to a selected one of a second plurality of locations. The distributor (1) has a first pipe (5) and a second bent pipe (51), which are in communication with one another at a first end (8, 8') via a mass mover. The second bent pipe (5') is rotatable about the first end (81)...