ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,102, issued on May 20, was assigned to MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmueller Se & Co. KG (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).
"Method for eliminating rejects and transport unit suitable therefor" was invented by Manuel Moesle (Altusried, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport unit, such as a feeder of a packaging device, is provided, wherein the loading of the transport unit by portions is registered by a control and stored in a memory of the control. The transport unit, in particular its operating unit, is designed in such a manner that an operator can select and mark food pieces or portions to be removed from the transport unit and actua...