ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,599, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH & Co. KG (Lubeck, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for automatically recovering flesh from beheaded and eviscerated fish" was invented by Mirko Pagels (Lubeck, Germany), Valeri Krahn (Lubeck, Germany) and Ulrich Gutte (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for automatically recovering meat from headed and gutted fish comprises: a transport device for transporting the fish along a transport path in a transport direction; a measuring device for detecting an anatomy of the fish; and a detaching device for detaching the meat from a bone st...