ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,568, issued on May 27, was assigned to MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmuller SE & Co. KG (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).
"Method for the parallel production of shingled portions with different number of slices and suitable slicing machine" was invented by Tobias Enderle (Bad Gronenbach, Germany) and Albert Hartmann (Dietmannsried, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to prevent a slice from being separated from each log during the last cut in the case of multiple portions produced in parallel, that is to say there is no unproductive cut in the last cut, as is required, for example, in EP 2942165 B1, the basic idea is to already provide ...